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What is antisemitism (Unesco) Kesto 3,46

Katsottiin tunnilla.
The video highlights the nature, origins, mechanisms and historical evolution of antisemitism, as well as its continued presence in today’s society and the importance of combatting it. It was funded by the European Union, as part of UNESCO's programme on combatting antisemitism through education.

European Antisemitism from Its Origins to the Holocaust

Katsottiin tunnilla. This 13-minute film introduces the history of antisemitism. The term was coined in the 19th century and refers to prejudice against or hatred of Jews. But as this film shows, anti-Jewish hostility goes back many centuries—to the era of early Christianity and the Middle Ages. As a religious minority, Jews in Christian-dominant Europe were consistently persecuted as “outsiders.” They became scapegoats and victims of targeted violence in times of severe hardship and economic and political change.

Anti-Jewish prejudices endured and took on new forms as western societies became more secular in the 19th century, and Jews gained more rights and opportunities. Some politicians used “the Jews” as scapegoats in their attempts to gain support from people left behind by economic change. Ultra-nationalists, seeking ethnically homogeneous nations, saw Jews as biologically “foreign”—a different “race.” Antisemites also hatched conspiracy theories about “Jewish power” and that, after World War I and the Russian Revolution, linked Jews to Communism.

These radical strands of racial antisemitism, tied to ethnic nationalism and conspiracy myths, became core elements of Nazi ideology as the party was forming in the aftermath of World War I. After the Nazis took power in 1933, these ideas became state policy and underpinned anti-Jewish laws and decrees. Nazi propaganda portrayed Germany’s Jews as an “alien,” biological threat to the survival of the German people. During World War II, this racial antisemitism motivated Nazi policy that evolved into mass murder and genocide. Nazi officials also exploited longstanding traditional prejudices towards Jews in the countries they conquered to gain help from non-Germans to locate, round up, deport, and kill Jews.

00:00 Intro
00:45 Judaism & the Birth of Christianity
02:14 Early Christianity
03:08 The Middle Ages
05:05 Martin Luther and the Reformation
06:00 The Enlightenment
6:34 The Dreyfus Affair
7:16 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
8:16 Pogroms in Eastern Europe
8:50 Racial Antisemitism
09:35 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
12:54 Antisemitism: An Ongoing Problem

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