Persecution of the Jews

  • 1806

    Abbe Barruel, a French Jesuit priest, wrote a treatise saying The Masonic Order was responsible for the French Revolution. He then later wrote a letter blaming the Jews.
  • 1840

    Rumors in Syria spread that Jews were responsible for the ritual killing of a Roman Catholic monk and his servant. Jews later then began confessing to crimes they did not commit.
  • 1846

    Pope Pius IX began to restore all restrictions against Jews, putting them into Rome's ghettos.
  • 1858

    Edgardo Mortara was kidnapped from his Jewish family at the age of six after they found out a maid had tried to baptize him.
  • 1903

    On Easter, government agents organized an anti-Jewish pogrom and the local newspaper published inflammatory articles. The Jews were blamed for the deaths of a Christian child and woman. Violence began and 49 Jews were killed, 500 injured.
  • 1905

    The Russian secret police converted an antisemitic novel and published it privately in 1897 and then publicly in 1905. It was used in a propaganda campaign to massacre the Jews.
  • 1915

    600,000 Jews were forced to move from Western Russia to the interior. 100,000 died from exposure.
  • 1917

    In the civil war following the Bolshevik Revolution, 200,000 Jews were killed in Ukraine alone.
  • 1920

    The Protocols reach the U.S and England and are exposed as forgery but still are circulated. Henry Ford sponsors a study of international activities of Jews. This leads to antisemitic articles in the Dearborn Independent.
  • 1920

    Jewish influence is said to be the reason German lost WW1 and Germany's economic issues.