Anti-Semitism refers to hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.
Holocaust: The genocide during World War II where approximately six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany.
Pogroms: Violent riots aimed at the massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews.
Zionism: A movement for the re-establishment and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.
What is anti-Semitism?
What links exist between the anti-Semitism that precipitated the Holocaust and medieval Europe's persecution of Jews during the Black Death?
How did Enlightenment thinking indirectly contribute to the seeds of Anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust?
In what way did domestic policies related to anti-Semitism in Germany influence other nations during WWII?
What was Kristallnacht and why is it considered significant in the history of anti-Semitism in Germany?
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