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Interestingly, banking and other professions associated with Jews, excluded Jews until relatively recently. > The term originated in the Ivy League colleges an
by vostok 5y ago
Interestingly, banking and other professions associated with Jews, excluded Jews until relatively recently.
> The term originated in the Ivy League colleges and originally reflected a stereotype of old-line firms populated by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). The term historically had antisemitic connotations, as many of the New York firms known as "white shoe" were considered off-limits to Jews until the 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-shoe_firm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-shoe_firm
- poisonarena 5y agoin the medieval ages the church forbade certain types of lending, thats why in Crusader Kings 2 you can borrow money from the Jews, and then expel them so you dont have to pay them back (which actually gives you a negative economic bonus for a time)
- hh3k0 5y agoApologies, it was late and English is not my native language so I used the term "banking" when I shouldn't have. What I wanted to refer to is this: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism#Restrictions_to_marginal_occupations_(tax_collecting,_moneylending,_etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism#Restrict...>