Tag: progroms
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How Jewish people extremely diminished their suffering
Jewish history contains an almost incomprehensible amount of persecution. Long before the Holocaust, Jewish communities were expelled, segregated, robbed, forcibly converted, tortured, massacred, and blamed for catastrophes they did not cause. During the Crusades, entire Jewish communities were massacred. Medieval authorities restricted where Jews could live, what professions they could enter, whether they could own…