One of the monumental blows dealt to the Jews was in 586 B.C.E. It was then that the Jews were exiled in Babylonia by the conquering King, Nebuchadnezzar II. There exile would last almost fifty years.
In 167 B.C.E. the ruler Antiochus IV took over the Jewish temple with the intent to introduce the worship of Zeus, by placing a bowl of pork at the altar of the temple and outlawing circumcisions.
In 70 C.E. the Jews were conquered by the Romans and this became the end of the second temple. This changed the way the Jewish faith had to worship.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many European Jews lobbied their governments for emancipation. They sought citizenship as well as the same rights and treatment as were enjoyed by non-Jews. This appears to have provoked sporadic anti-semites to engage in anti-Jewish violence. Jews and their property were attacked first in Wuerzburg, Germany during 1819-AUG. The rioting spread across Germany and eventually reached as far as Poland. …show more content…
Widespread pogroms occur in Greece, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Rumania, and the USSR. Radio programs by many conservative American clergy, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, frequently attacked Jews. Reverend Fr. Charles E Coughlin was one of the best known. "In the 1930's, radio audiences heard him rail against the threat of Jews to America's economy and defend Hitler's treatment of Jews as justified in the fight against