> Jews were allowed to be money lenders, but were then despised by christians.
>Because Jews killed Jesus.
>JEALOUSY.
>"Gods Chosen People".
>Etc., etc., etc., etc.,
Most promising answer to date:
>Perhaps they should read the book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People"?
"In each narrow room of the Judenstrasse lived an average of six persons, so that the number of Jews in the city was not insignificant, but they were not allowed to work in the Christian areas of the city, not to join any of the guilds where men worked as artisans, nor to buy or sell merchandise of any kind except amongst themselves, nor to engage in any kind a enterprise except moneylending, which the Church still forbade to Christians; and it was not unusual to see the Christian dignitaries of Gretz come furtively to the Judenstrasse money shops, seeking loans, and then some months later to read the rabble in to kill the moneylenders, burn the account books, and thus erase all debt/"