Hello dear friend so far away
It amazes me that people don't stop and think about the fact that the Jewish people after all that has happened to them still exist
. The Nazi Holocaust is just the tip of the iceberg. After A.D.70 and the seige on Jerusalem, the interval from Hadrian (A.D.140) to Constantine saw the Jewish people in a measure prosperous and flourishing but with the conversion of Constantine (A.D.312) to Christianity (some don't even believe he was alive when he was baptized since it was done on his death bed), they lost imperial favor. I think the first recorded mis-treatment was under Canute (A.D.1020) when he banished all Jews from England. In A.D.1098 the "Holy War" began by attempting to murder all the Jews in Europe who would not submit to baptism. Henry II ordered the Jews to pay 60,000 pounds defraying his expenses during one of the Crusades. At the Accession of Richard I (Couer de Leon), A.D.1189, murderous riots were instigated against the Jews and not a Jewish houshold in London escaped robbery and murder. The following year occured the "Tragedy of York Castle," in which the chief Rabbi of York, with 500 followers were besieged in York Castle, and when escape became hopeless they slew one another and the chief Rabbi, the last to die, started a conflagration, then took his own life, and when the besiegers broke in they found the beseiged Jews in one great pile like a sacrifice on the altar. Up to the time of Edward I, A.D.1272, the Crown claimed to own the Jew and all he possessed, and from time to time would allow them to gather riches that he might squeeze them from them, like water from a sponge. Edward I drove all the Jews, 16,500 in number, from England, and for nearly four centuries there is no evidence that British soil was pressed by a Jewish foot.
Believe it or not, the "Black Death" A.D.1348-1350 that swept over Europe and killed one-fourth of the population, afflicted the Jews lightly, owing to their simple life and observance of the hygenic requirements of the Levitical Law, caused them to be suspect as the source of the plague! They were charged with poisoning the wells and springs. In Germany the composition of the poison, the color of the packages in which it was transported, and the persons who conveyed them, were all declared to be known. The result was they suffered torture, the caldron, and devouring by flames at the hands of the "Flagellants," an order of fanatics who swarmed through Germany preaching extermination to all unbelievers. I would imagine a fair number of Christians met with the same fate.
Have you ever read "Foxe's Book of Martyrs?" by John Foxe (born 1517 in Lincolnshire, England). It is still in print and I think it would be eye opening if you get a chance.
Take care and write soon