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Jonathan Sacks

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and

Jonathan Sacks

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In 19th century Europe, people stopped seeing the Church as the ultimate source of truth and started trusting science instead. This shift led to the development of racial anti-Semitism, which was justified using then-accepted scientific fields like the study of race.

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