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Assumptions of incessant jewish wandering, limited Jewish economic outlets, and debased Jewish status are important elements in the prevailing sense of the horrors of Jewish experience in medieval western Christendom. Overshadowing these negative images is the conviction that the Jews of medieval Christian Europe were the victims of unrelenting violence, grounded in historical hatred of and irrational fantasies about Judaism and Jews. For many modern observers, Jews were unceasingly the objects of assault, from the First Crusade at the end of the eleventh century and down through the close of the Middle Ages toward the end of the fifteenth century. The regular violence Jews suffered was purportedly the most devastatingly negative aspect of Jewish life in medieval western Christendom.
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Assumptions of incessant jewish wandering, limited Jewish economic outlets, and debased Jewish status are important elements in the prevailing sense of the horrors of Jewish experience in medieval western Christendom. Overshadowing these negative images is the conviction that the Jews of medieval Christian Europe were the victims of unrelenting violence, grounded in historical hatred of and irrational fantasies about Judaism and Jews. For many modern observers, Jews were unceasingly the objects of assault, from the First Crusade at the end of the eleventh century and down through the close of the Middle Ages toward the end of the fifteenth century. The regular violence Jews suffered was purportedly the most devastatingly negative aspect of Jewish life in medieval western Christendom.
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