European Christians forced Jews to become moneylenders, a job forbidden to Christians by their religion. The Christians, who had coerced them into that enterprise, then excoriated them as “money-grubbing Jews.”
Observing this conundrum, a Jew of the time remarked:
“They kick us. And then blame us for limping.”
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And yet, a pound of flesh is way more than what's traditionally lost in your typical circumcision.
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