[Renfrew]

Any idea why Armenia is so anti-Semitic?

[Zhang Fei]

[Any idea why Armenia is so anti-Semitic?]

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For some reason, Eastern Orthodoxy seems to have it in for Jews. While Hitler was born a Catholic and somehow developed unfathomable levels of animus for Jews, Orthodoxy has tended to be much more day-to-day anti-semitic. In Fiddler on the Roof, the Rabbi says: “May God bless and keep the Tsar ... far away from us”. That was due to the Tsar instigating any number of anti-semitic pogroms.

Prior to Hitler, anyone who suggested that Germany, home of Goethe, Beethoven, etc, would begin an attempt to eliminate Jews from the planet, would be considered a candidate for the funny farm. If there were a locale considered most likely to bury its Jewish population in a mass grave, it would be Russia, which acquired its Jewish population along with Poland during Catherine the Great’s rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogroms_in_the_Russian_Empire