Did people in Central/Eastern Europe hate Jews pre-WW2 because they were seen to be moneylenders,etc?

What were the actual reasons for the dislike of the Jewish Europeans?

antisemitism has existed for over 5000 years

the reasons have never really changed

The pogroms against jews raged across Europe for almost a thousand years. The first recorded one taking place in York in the early 13th century.

There are many sociological explanations and patterns to explain the scapegoat nature of Jewish socialisation... but the one constant factor is the blind ignorance of the peasant fear against them.

In modern Britain, you can replace the word 'Jew' with 'Muslim' and get a fairly clear understanding of the 'modus operandi'.

Many Christians/Catholics believed that the Jews were at fault for the death of Jesus. Not to be racist or anything, but in truth it is kind of true, but you can't blame a race of people for Jesus' death. That's probably the main reason. More reasons just were added on top of that multiple times. Not understanding/knowing the situation also probably led to the Jews being discriminated against in many settings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15S2oRdSZ4&feature=related

Jewish culture is fairly exclusive and slightly arrogant. They are the chosen people of God, and all others are doomed to eternal torment. They tend to keep things within the community, so are seen as snobbish to outsiders. Add to this a tendency to be successful, and you have some jealousy and resentment.

Over time, these became common attitudes. Also, the Christian influence in Europe made the Jews out to be the villains.

Hitler simply expanded this latent hatred and dumped blame for other problems on them.

They tended to be insular.

Because they were seen as non-christians.
They called jews christ killers.

Hi there.
They have been and still are very tribal in attitude in central Europe. The real crime of the Jews is the same as the crimes of the Gypsies and the Muslims living there - they are different.
The hatred is about who they are, not what they have done. Don't presume there is a rational reason for it, because there isn't. Otherwise why would they still kill Jews, Gypsies etc that lived as the locals did, that had been neighbours and gave no outward sign of difference?
Cheers, Steve.