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#299 | Dr. Isaac Amon; Judaism, Jewish History and Antisemitism

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Is the Judaism Prohibiting Usury?

When I, in my very simple reading of anti-Semitism, was that the Christians had edicts against loaning money and the Islamic way of loaning money is really complicated. And so the Jewish faith was, this is what was told to me. It's not a job that endures you to people. But in many cases, you know, they're the king's Jews. That's what they were called a lot of times because they were collecting on behalf of the world treasury. A lot of it does come from that. The image of the Jew as associated with money and greed. They, again, were forced into these types of positions or maybe being peddlers or things like

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