It comes from early European Christian prohibitions against money lending and other capitalistic functions--they imported Jews to do it--and Jews did, not having rights to own land or allowed other jobs. And then periodically, the Jews would be kicked out and all goods that they accumulated were confiscated, or they were just killed out right in periodic pogroms. Good times. This is from where the roots of that stereotype come.
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Date: 2009-06-14 03:09 am (UTC)