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A 3 page essay responding to the lot of the Jewish in the Middle Ages. The paper mentions the premier Jewish philosopher of the era, Maimonides, and a few of his positions that are tenets of Orthodox Jewish doctrine today. It glances at the fact that practicing Jews, through application, education and commitment, are generally effective at their work, regardless of what that work might be, and that the anti-Semitism of the time might have sprung more from envy than from dogmatic differences. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to dispel the picture of Jewish, medieval life as one long tale of suffering and learning. Hence the emphasis upon the considerable influence in high governing circles and the
significant degree of control over day-to-day life enjoyed by many pre-modern Jewish communities. Hence, too, the attention to the very active political struggles within those communities. Normalization of
Jewish political life, in this sense at least, did not have to wait for the rise of Zionism" (Himmelfarb, 1994, 107). According to Himmelfarb, Baile gathers a body of references
to Jewish wealth in antiquity, wealth that he insists would have created anti-Jewish feelings. Yet given the silence of the ancient sources, it is hard to imagine that writers
would have emphasized the role of economic factors in antiquity if it were not for the significant role played by the activities of the Jews as moneylenders and merchants in
the development of anti-Semitism in medieval Europe. Another striking example of the problematic use of a model drawn from the Christian Middle Ages is an emphasis on an economic cause
for popular animosity toward the Jews. Medieval sources neglect to mention such a cause, but ancient historians are rarely interested in economic causes. A clear observation (rather than
stereotype) of Jews throughout history reveals that while the Jewish people inhabit all socioeconomic levels, they tend to be successful at whatever they do. It doesnt happen just because
theyre Jewish and therefore chosen, it happens because practicing, committed Jews know all their traditional history-its part of Jewish parents responsibility to teach their children to continue the Jewish tradition
and commitment: These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you
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