The modern industrial age brought along with it a whole new school of thought, thought based on science and rationality rather than the waning belief in religion. The social and economic revolution also saw Jews in a new light, one in which they were not merely thought of as Jews, in the religious sense, but viewed now as a people with their own particular inherited characteristics. For this reason hating Jews for their religious beliefs …showed first 75 words of 1885 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1885 total…change other than the changing nature of society during this time. The progress of industrialisation, urbanisation and science played a massive role in changing peoples perceptions of the world. The new anti-Semitic theories developed in this new era assisted by devastating exclusive events encouraged new forms of anti-Semitism to spring up across America and Europe in the 19th Century on a much more permanent and racial basis, ensuring it would continue for the foreseeable future.