Hello and welcome back to 103.13‚ today we will be talking to an expert on religious persecution. Hello. Hi‚ can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Ok well‚ my name is Lena Kaligaris‚ I am an expert in religious persecution. My parents are from Greece‚ but they left while my mother was pregnant with me‚ the reason they left is that they wanted better opportunities for me. One of the reasons I went into this line of work is because‚ I went to a catholic school and my best friend in the school
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Father Tomas de Torquemada stalled the time of the expulsion of Jews’ to March instead of January. Spain was under invasion by Muslims at the time and had just defeated the Muslims in Granada; thus being so‚ King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella only wanted Spain to be among Christian citizens. Therefore‚ the expulsion of Jews’ quickly began in March 1492. The expulsion of the Jews’ was the pet project of the Spanish Inquisition. Jews’ were encouraged to convert to Christianity‚ flee the country of
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Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Adolf Hitler‚ ruler of Germany from 1933-1945‚ and his Nazi Party murdered more than half of Europe’s 11 million Jews in the Holocaust. The vast majority of these murders took place in just 4 years from 1941 to 1945. Hitler was able to do this because of his feelings of hatred towards the Jews (known as anti-Semitism) were shared by many other Germans and people in Europe. Anti-Semitism was not invented by Hitler or the Germans. It existed everywhere in Europe and
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that was superior to all other races. It viewed Aryans as being in racial conflict with a mixed race people‚ the Jews‚ whom Nazis identified as a dangerous enemy of the Aryans. It also viewed a number of other peoples as dangerous to the well-being of the Aryan race‚ particularly Slavs and Romani. To maintain the "purity and strength" of the Aryan race‚ the Nazis sought to exterminate Jews‚ Romani‚ and the physically and mentally disabled.[13] Other groups deemed "degenerate" and "asocial" who were
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Hitler. It was the mass murder of six million Jews that led up and carried on through WWll. Jews were targeted as well as many other groups such as The Roma‚ incurably sick‚ political opponents‚ homosexuals‚ Jehovah’s Witness‚ Ethnic Poles‚ and Soviet prisoners of war. Hitler’s final solution included camp systems‚ death marches‚ deportation‚ and immediate murder. My grandmother‚ Erica Schwartz‚ lived through the horrific stages
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From “New Christians” to “New Jews” Judaism was not always an openly free religion. During the late Middle Ages‚ the Inquisition expanded in Spain and Portugal due to New Christians‚ who were called conversos. The phrase “New Christians” refers to Sephardic Jews in Rome and Portugal who at the time converted to the Catholic Church due to multiple reasons. Many had to go against their beliefs and converted because they were forced to. At this time‚ Amsterdam was a safe place for Jewish
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the 16th century‚ there were not many Jews in England. They practised their religion secretly. Many of them either converted to Christianity or pretended to have done so because of the discrimination against them. Christians believed that the Jews were inferior to them and should not be accepted into their society. Jews were treated with strong disrespect because of their alternative religious beliefs‚ their financial status and ways of living. Jews were hated in many places because of the
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Persecution of Religions The Orthodox Church has a very rich past in Russia dating back to the 10th century when numerous churches were constructed. In the 11th century‚ monasteries began to flourish. Besides being devoted to spiritual work‚ these played also an important role in providing more formal education. In the 13th century‚ the Russian Orthodox church shielded the population from the Tatar great invasion that could have engulfed the Christian faith throughout Russia. Similarly‚ in the
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W English III 3 December 20-- A Comparison of Hasidic Jews and the Amish Hasidic Jews and the Amish have surprising similarities in lifestyles and clothing preferences but differ in their religious beliefs. Hasidic Jews and the Amish separate themselves from the rest of the world. Each live in all Jewish or all Amish communities and follow the same traditions and customs as other families in their respective groups. Hasidic Jews do not use modern comforts such as ovens and electricity on
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October 24‚ 2012 “Explain how the Holocaust affected Jews living in Europe.” The Holocaust was one of the most disturbing and petrifying eras of all time. The holocaust‚ one of the most famous genocides in the world‚ has showed the world what the evils of man can do to mankind. It was the genocide that killed approximately six million Jews and millions of others in a state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. In a book review of “The Holocaust” by Gilbert Martin‚ Martin says
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