5: Culture, Science, and Pseudo-Science
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- 5.6: Modern Anti-Semitism
- European Jews were a minority everywhere they lived. Furthermore, because of their long, difficult, and often violent history facing persecution from the Christian majority, Jews faced a particularly virulent and deep-seated form of hatred from their non-Jewish neighbors. That hatred, referred to as anti-Semitism, took on new characteristics in the modern era that, if anything, made it even more dangerous.