Antisemitism in Europe
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Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism)—prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews has existed the ancient civilizations. In the 20th century, antisemitism in Europe led to the rise of the Nazis, the the Holocaust (or Jewish genocide) of six-million people and the dislocation of the continent's surviving Jewish population.
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- The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton’s universe and Herschell’s universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson (22 January 1825). The section in italics is often attached to fragments from an earlier letter from Adams to Jefferson (17 January 1820)
External links[edit]
- Encyclopedic article on Antisemitism in Europe on Wikipedia