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Article: Jews, Attitudes Toward
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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JEWS, ATTITUDES TOWARD
JEWS, ATTITUDES TOWARD.
A number of the most important shifts in European Christian treatment of Jews overlap with the early modern period but transcend its chronological boundaries. For instance, the Jewish expulsions from western and southern Europe
had already begun in the thirteenth century, would peak at the end of the fifteenth, and begin to peter out only toward the end of the sixteenth century. Or, to cite another case, decisive shifts in Jewish legal status, ones rooted in the processes of early modern European state building, persisted well into the nineteenth century, not just in eastern Europe but in many parts of western and central Europe too. ...