8, Antisemitism and Racism

Question 1

Blumenbach

Answer 1

Attached attributes to pigmentation (difference is inferior)
‘Remove evil of slavery and Africans would be as ‘perfectible’ as Europeans’

Question 2

Racist science

Answer 2

RS ‘justifying’ promotes the interests of traders so why question the morality
Europeans saw it as their right to ‘civilise’ others and dominate world with their culture

Question 3

Social Darwinism

Answer 3

Took ‘survival of the fittest’ approach and applied it to society, claiming only the most intelligent and biologically superior races would survive and be deemed the superior race/s

Question 4

Russian antisemitism

Answer 4

Over 5m Jews
1881 assassination of the Tsar Alexander triggered massive pogroms
Mass migration of Eastern Jews to west (3m Jews left Eastern Europe)

Question 5

Anti-Judaism:
Pre-Modern
Conservatives
Socialists

Answer 5

1. blood libels (blood to make Passover bread), cursed by God as children of the devil
2. Jewish financial stranglehold of world economies through complex interconnected network
3. Jews as capitalists instrumental in the exploitation of the working class