1. By: Eric Gerlin and Gianna Milordo
Persecution
By: Eric Gerlin and Gianna Milordo

2. Religious disunity in Europe:
Protestants broke away from Catholic Church into groups
Religious feud increased
Non-Catholics persecuted Catholics and each other
Catholics persecuted Non-Catholics

3. Persecution and Hysteria:
Catholics and protestants viewed Jews and Muslims as heretics
They were forced to convert or leave Spain (Muslims-1500, Jews-1492)
Jews resettled southern and eastern Europe
Some converted to Christianity

4. Expulsion of jews and muslims
Spain gave them three options:
Convert to Christianity
Leave Spain forever
Die

5. Jews in the Aftermath of the Reformation:
Jews had to sell all there land to Catholics
Censored Jewish books
Forced to live in Ghettos
Pope Paul vi issued a bull (a papal edict) called
Cum Nimis Absurdum

6. Index Librorum Prohibitorum
List of forbidden books (Index Of Forbidden Books)
that people shouldn’t read
Contained Reformer’s, secular, and Jewish writing
If you read them you could lose your soul

7. Isolation of the jews:
Cum Nimis Absurdum states that “all Jews should live solely in one and the same location, or if that is not possible, in two or three or as many as are necessary, which are to be contiguous and separated completely from the dwellings of Christians.  These places are to be designated by us in our city and by our magistrates in the other cities, holdings, and territories.  They should have one entry and so, too, one exit.”
Which means that they need to be completely separated from Christians and all in one place

8. Anti-Semitism:
Counter reformation encouraged Christians to publish anti-Semitic works accusing the Jews of performing murder rituals and host desecration

9. Who were involved?
Pope Paul Vi
jews
Muslims
Protestants
Catholics

11. http://jewishhistory. research. wesleyan
the-counter-reformation/
rmation.ppt
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