my world civ textbook managed to cover the crusades without once mentioning jews and i've skipped right past offended to genuinely amazed that they pulled that off
must we really do this........they switch between calling jerusalem a christian city and a muslim city seemingly regardless of the ruling power at the time and although denoting the significance to both groups is important, notably absent are. how to say this. the people who first built the city as it is currently known at its earliest point in history and significantly populated it throughout history with the exception of times in which doing so would result in being Killed To Death
the crusades werenât really about the jews though were they? idk Iâve been under the impression that they were christians vs muslims
see unfortunately we were massacred en masse and it's so odd that ppl don't....know this
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(what is so important about the rhineland massacres in particular is that the chain of events they set off led almost directly to the shoah)
we fought alongside the muslims in eretz yisraelâi choose to use here the name we've always known it by amongst ourselves and do not intend for my wording to have political implicationsâat which time we had about fifty notable communities in different cities including jerusalem, teveriah, ramla, ashkelon, keysariah, and gaza. after the crusades, we were left with, as far as i know, possibly the smallest jewish population in the land in verifiable history. (see below, jump to "under crusade rule"; can't link directly from mobile)
the crusades define the ashkenazi jewish diaspora, period. they define our attitude of fear of our neighbors and the specific fear of europeans that's still prevalent in more traditional communities. the crusades arguably had both direct and indirect impacts on modern political zionism's original anti-religious and existential-fear-based doctrines (which became.......theocratic ethnonationalism, which was surprisingly predictable).
we haven't escaped their shadow, and we can't begin to understand how to without learning about them. do with this what you will.
...how do you just LEAVE THAT OUT? Thatâs like leaving the Holocaust out of World War II.
