To use for Yr 10 Holocaust Topic; Australian History Syllabus (NSW 2010)

1. A HISTORY OF ANTI-
SEMITISM

2. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS IMAGE?

3. WHAT IS ANTI-SEMITISM?
• Anti-Semitism is the term used to describe when
people are prejudiced (or bias) against the Jews,
just because they are Jewish.
Q. In this image, one group is being prejudiced to
another. Can you identify them?

4. ANTI-SEMITISM EXISTED A LONG TIME
BEFORE THE NAZIS
Source 1: A copy of a drawing by an Italian monk in AD
1023 of Jews holding their hands over their ears because
they didn’t want to listen to the Christian gospel.

5. OTHER EXAMPLES OF ANTI-SEMITISM
Source 2 – Melito, Bishop of Sardis (Asia Minor), second
century AD
“You [all the Jews] killed the Lord in the middle of
Jerusalem. Hear all generations of the people and
see……The King of Israel was murdered by Jewish
hands.
Source 3 – A German woodcut,
1493; illustrating the story of the
murder of a young German boy,
supposedly by Jews
Source 4 – ‘The greedy, money-grabbing
Jew’, drawn in Manchester 1773

6. SUMMARY POINTS
Ancient Origins
• Early ___________ teaching blamed the Jews for the
crucifixion of Christ
• The Jewish communities in the Middle East were
_____________ after the fall of the_________ in Jerusalem in
70 AD. These communities were called the _________.
During the Middle Ages
• Jews were often blamed as ___________ for local
problems
• New laws were developed in places like Britain to ban
Jewish people from owning land.
• Lies like the _____ _________were developed to
_______Jews from the European communities
Key Terms:
Temple, Christian, expel, scapegoats, Blood Libel, scattered,
diaspora

7. SUMMARY POINTS
• In modern times, Wilhelm Marr (1818 – 1904) was a
German writer who helped extend anti-semitical ideas
into the area of science.
• In his pamphlet The Way to Victory of Germanicism over
Judaism, 1879) he argued that Germans and Jews were
caught in a longstanding conflict.
• Marr also argued that this conflict arose because the
Jewish born Germans were a separate and different
‘race’ to full blooded Germans.
• Marr was influenced by a German professor, Ernst
Haeckel, who argued that the Jews were an earlier,
inferior form of the human species (Social Darwinism)

8. ACTIVITIES
1. Add the following terms to your glossary:
Scapegoat, Blood Libel, diaspora, anti-Semitism,
social Darwinism, Wilhelm Marr
2. Describe three forms of anti-Semitism that occurred
before the year 1900 AD
3. Research into Social Darwinism.
a) What are the central arguments of this theory?
b) Who were its main proponents?
c) Find some historical images that seek to illustrate
this theory