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In late antiquity as Christianity spread predominantly among Genties in Europe, the idea of Jews being those who believed in the same god but rejecting Jesus. The was especially prominent after the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD when Christians at the time considered it part of their punishment.

Later, as already mentioned in the medieval period after Christianity became dominant in Europe, usury was outlawed by the church (still is outlawed in Islam too), so Jews went into the banking and financial sectors since those laws did not apply to them and it helped fulfill a needed at the time. This was how the stereotypes of Jews being greedy began.

It should also be noted that since Jews could not own land back then, they chose careers that did not depend on the land and could allow them to get good paying work if they were displaced, which led many to take what today would be considered white collar jobs that required more education such as medicine, engineering, and such. This combined being in the financial sector led to them being more affluent than most of the population of where they were at furthered the stereotypes.

On top of that Jews in medieval and early modern times largely kept to themselves in tight knit communities and not willing to convert to Christianity led to them being seen as outsiders.

As a result of all of the above conspiracy theories grew and made it easy to scapegoat them when anything went bad.

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