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Introduction
I. Constantine and Christianity as the state religion
A. Legislation concerning Jews
B. The Justinian Code
C. Anti-Semitic Church Fathers
II. The Crusades
A. The march to Jerusalem
B. Fourth Lateran Council
C. Host desecration and blood libel
D. Pogroms
III. The expulsion of Jews from Spain
A. The Inquisition
B. The Conversos
C. Expulsion
Conclusion
Anti-Semitism is defined as prejudice or discrimination against, and persecution of, the Jews as an ethnic group. Historically, this has been practiced for many different reasons, by the ancient Egyptians before the Exodus, under the Babylonian Captivity in 586 B.C.E. and for almost 2,000 years by European Christians. Anti-Semitism was a tenet of Nazi Germany, and in the Holocaust (Hebrew Shoah) 1933-1945 about 6 million Jews died in concentration camps and in local extermination pogroms, such as the siege of the Warsaw ghetto. In Eastern Europe, as well as in Islamic......
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