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Re:Jewish Problems (2011) by vostok on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:57PM (#28137414)
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

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Re:Jewish Problems (2011) by hh3k0 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @02:54PM (#28146109)
Apologies, 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#Restrict...>

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Re:Jewish Problems (2011) by poisonarena on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:18PM (#28137547)
in 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)
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