Origins of antisemitism in Europe dates

deicide charge

1st-5th

black death scapegoating

1340’s

Luther’s preachings ‘On the Jews and their Lies” which advocated for synagogue destruction

1543

enlightenment movement

1685-1815

rise of the German pietism as a romantic era reaction

1670s-1700

Jew Bill

1753

Camper’s lecture on physiognomy facial measurements

1770’s

German ‘Hep!Hep!” riots

1819

Eugene Sue’s “The Wandering Jew”

1844-45

Darwin’s the origin of species, exploited for social darwinism

1859

Goedsche’s “Biarritz”

1868

Ernst Haeckel popularises social darwinist ideas in Germany

1860’s-1870’s

German unification

1871

an economic crash where the jewish finance capital was used as the major scapegoat

1873

Wilhelm Marr coins the term “antisemitism”

1879

anti semites petition presented to Bismarck with over 250,000 signatures

1880

trials/resurgence of ‘ritual murder’ by jews held

1890-1914

“Protocols of the Elders of Zion” first developed

1894-1899

Alfred Ploetz founds the Rassenhygiene movement where he propels the discourse between race and eugenics

1895

WW1 antisemitic theories begin to circulate

1914-1918

“Stab in the back” myth circulates within Germany

1918-1919

25 point programme produced containing strong antisemitic sentiments

1920

Mein Kampf references ‘The Protocols’

1923-1925