100 ⟶ Tacitus' Anti-Jewish Polemic in *Histories*
Tacitus writes anti-Jewish polemic in his Histories (book 5)...
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📜 Claudius Restricts Jewish Assemblies and Expels Jews from Rome
Jews are ordered by Roman Emperor Claudius "not to hold meetings", in the words of Cassius Dio (Roman History, 60.6.6). Claudius later expelled Jews from Rome, according to both Suetonius ("Lives of the Twelve Caesars", Claudius, Section 25.4) and Acts 18:2.⟶
Roman EmpireClaudiusExpulsionRomeJewish DiasporaRestrictionsAncient Rome
Italy✍️ Apion's Fabrications and Anti-Jewish Polemic by Juvenal
Fabrications of Apion in Alexandria, Egypt, including the first recorded case of Blood libel. Juvenal writes anti-Jewish poetry. Josephus picks apart contemporary and old antisemitic myths in his work Against Apion.⟶
Roman EmpireAnti-SemitismBlood LibelPolemicAlexandriaJuvenalJosephusApion
EgyptItaly📜 Tacitus' Anti-Jewish Polemic in *Histories*
Tacitus writes anti-Jewish polemic in his Histories (book 5). He reports on several old myths of ancient antisemitism (including that of the donkey's head in the Holy of Holies), but the key to his view that Jews "regard the rest of mankind with all the hatred of enemies" is his analysis of the extreme differences between Monotheistic Judaism and the Polytheism common throughout the Roman world.⟶
Roman EmpireAnti-SemitismTacitusHistoriographyAncient RomeReligious DifferenceMonotheism
Italy♟️ Bobby Fischer's Anti-Jewish Statements
Chess player Bobby Fischer made numerous anti-Jewish statements and professed a general hatred for Jews since at least the early 1960s. Although Fischer described his mother as Jewish in a 1962 interview, he later denied his Jewish ancestry.⟶
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