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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2074966, member: 39&quot;]Actually I don&#039;t have the foggiest idea. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Of course the word Jude/Jew has, by itself, not a negative connotation - what makes the difference is the context or who says it. If people live in a &quot;Jewish Quarter&quot;, like in Antwerp nowadays, there is nothing wrong with the term. Now if it means that Jews in a city <i>had to</i> live in a certain quarter in medieval and early modern times ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The two notgeld issues are from Austria, and I suppose that a village name like <i>Judenhof</i> and <i>Judendorf</i> simply meant that a significant number of Jews lived there. Judenhof was part of <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustadtl_an_der_Donau" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustadtl_an_der_Donau" rel="nofollow">Neustadtl/Donau</a>, and was apparently renamed during WW2; has been Berghof since then. Judendorf is part of <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratwein-Straßengel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratwein-Straßengel" rel="nofollow">Gratwein-Straßengel</a> now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t see why any of the two should be antisemitic. If at all, renaming Judenhof into Berghof, well after that note was issued, reflected some antisemitism ... or maybe just the fact that those Jews had all gone or been &quot;removed&quot;. (Wikipedia links in German; the English pages do not provide much info.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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