Anti-Semitism In Spain During The Renaissance

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Anti-Semitism was an issue that rose throughout the world during the Renaissance era. This was primarily an issue in Spain during this time period due to the Crown Ferdinand and his wife Isabella. Spain was vastly separated at this time because they all had their own laws and government. In order for Ferdinand and Isabella to gain power, they would have to unite Spain in some way. People did not like the Jews for the reason that they were a potential threat to Spain because they had threatened before. To gain more power in Spain during the Renaissance, Ferdinand and Isabella found that they could unite Spain by attacking the New Christians, which they did by; killing the Jews, as well as, destroying their towns; forcing the conversos to convert to …show more content…

One of the first attempts to rid of the Jews was to expel them from Spain, but that wasn’t as successful as they had anticipated. Therefore more serious efforts were taken to take out the Jewish people. Mobs in various towns like Gerona in Catalonia and Seville attacked the Jewish community by burning it and causing massive loads of damage to everything. In addition to burning their houses down, mobs would also take the lives of the Jewish people. Royal troops also took part in murdering the Jewish people, which was visible in Toledo. In towns such as Barcelona and Madrid it was visible that the royal troops and the mobs were going to continue with their anti-sematic ways; Toledo, Gerona, and Seville were just the beginning. This anti-sematic feeling was caused by the growing worries that Jews could potentially cause a threat to wellbeing of the Spanish kingdoms. While the government and the mobs took down Jewish neighborhoods, rather than kill all of them, they began to convert the Jews from Judaism to

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