10.09
The existence of anti-Semitism can be traced back to the middle ages, linking societies without a developed capitalist system to a broad group of ideological prejudice, mainly to the contempt of activities that independently function economically, the church defined as usury.
The only way to become rich without suspicion was through feudal rent, accessible only to the privileged ones that certainly were much more than the Jews. Instead the Jews would excel on them, since their condition generally impend them to access another type of job (even when the majority of the European Jews were farmers and would perform different manual and intellectual jobs).
The manipulation of this prejudice was a good way to deviate social conflicts using the Jews as the escape goat. The credit for all the bad intensions was given to them.