The 1920s were filled with xenophobia, fundamentalism and extreme conservatism and so to say that this was an age of tolerance would be incorrect. Many immigrants and foreigners were discriminated against and unfairly treated. The revival of the vigilante group, the KKK, showed the lack of tolerance for those that were described as Un-American. (Unbelievers, bootleggers, those guilty of marital infidelity, criminals and the correct) This group was made up of immigrants, Jews, Blacks and Catholics. An example of how the 1920s were not an age of tolerance was how immigrants were treated badly; a demonstration of this was the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian-American men, who were arrested and charged with murder and robbery in Massachusetts.
Driven nearly two thousand years ago by the Romans from the land now called Israel, they spread throughout the globe and tried to retain their unique beliefs and culture while living as a minority. (Museum, 2011) Considering the Jews did not carry the same religious beliefs as the Christians, the Jews were discriminated against by the Christian’s. The Christians taught their people that the Jews were to blame for the death of Jesus. However at the time the Christian’s were not aware that the death of Jesus actually fell on the hands of the Roman government. Anti-Semitism was definitely present before the Holocaust and it was a thousand times worse during Hitler’s reign over the Nazi party.
He brainwashed people to believe that Jews were evil people and they weren’t true Germans. He defined being Jewish by blood and not by religion. Those who had Jewish ancestors were also defined as Jews although they weren’t as religious. The Holocaust was truly an awful, cruel, horrible time in our
There are several reasons why the Jews were as hated as they were, are, and will continue to be. The Jews refused to assimilate regardless of which culture, religion, or nation tried to entice or threaten to kill them. It is a pattern in history that regardless of the situation there always seems to be hate for the Jews. In the early years of Christianity the Christians saw The Jewish nation as a threat to their religion. The Czars were afraid of losing power so they created laws to persecute the Jews as well.
The Jews were not the perfect image to Hitler, but it wasn’t just him. The “Jewish problem was prevalent before Hitler,” where extermination was a frequent suggestion. Nazi’s had targeted them since early 1920’s. So why was He targeted and not the Nazi party? It was simply because Hitler was in charge of the Nazi
Genocide in definition "is the mass killing of a group of people", (Article 2 of the CPPCG). Throughout time and around the world there have been examples of genocide. The Bosnia genocide seen in former Yugoslavia, the Rwanda genocide, or the Darfur conflict which started in 2003 have shown the world just how prejudice can lead people to take part in "ethnic cleansing". Although such humanitarian crimes have been seen around the world the most massive and known acts of genocide has been seen in the Holocaust, a program of deliberate extermination of Jews along with other groups that lead to the killing of approximately six million Jews during World War II. The persecution and acts of genocide were accomplished by the National Socialist Regime,
After Alexander III died, he left a number of problems so when Nicholas II came to power; he already had enemies because many people (mainly the peasants) hated the idea of tsardom and were being suppressed, people referred to the peasants as ‘dark masses.’ Aggravating the peasants will surely lead to a rebellion, although this was fairly obvious, Nicholas II didn’t do much to improve the peasants lives, he also introduced anti-Semitism which then turned the Jews against the Tsar so Nicholas was creating more and more enemies. In the 1890s, Russia had an economic boom which was known as the great spurt, and with the help of Witte, the finance minister, they used this to their advantage to try to make Russia more modern. One of the ways in which they attempted this was to make a railway that goes across Russia, they believed that this was the starting point where Russia will become more modernised.
This predominantly Protestant power base caused disputes with the Catholics who immigrated to America, as the Catholics felt disenfranchised and apathetic due to the politicians in power not being able to relate to their culture. In addition, many of the traditions of that those who immigrated were discordant with those of the WASPs, which generated great amounts of segregation and suspicion around those who immigrated. A prime example of this would be the Russian Jews, as their beliefs about washing their dead were very different to the traditional funeral values instilled in the Protestants. Moreover, the suspicion was in many cases political as well as religious, due to the proliferation of socialist, and later Communist ideals in Europe: both were substantially different to the philosophies set out in the American Constitution. For example many of the Jews escaping the Pogroms in Russia had been influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx and Lenin.
Most Elizabethans disliked Jews because of the stereotype that was portrayed of them. Jewish people were thought to be money grabbing and selfish, and a lot of Elizabethans disagreed with there ideas and values. These characteristics are definitely prominent in Shylocks character, and in some ways he is the stereotypical Jew. The play’s a comedy and a lot of the humour3 is based on the Elizabethan reaction to Shylock's character and appearance. However, in modern times society is a lot less prejudice, and audiences are more sympathetic for Shylock.
According to him, as recorded in the New York Times, American anti-Semitism although it had not reached the level of the Nazi Germany, pollsters estimated that they were being unfavorable to them (Abzug 25). Although there were numerous reports during pre-war, such as the enactment of Nuremberg Laws in 1935 by the German government, which were widely reported in the American press, they were denounced at large (Abzug 23). In the Kristallnacht enactment in, 1938, the Jews had their citizenship stripped making them