ASSIGNMENT 2
DUE DATE: 7 APRIL 2025
, HSY2601
Section B: Assessment 2
Length: Part 1: 250 words
Part 2: Two paragraphs
Due Date: Monday, 7 April 2025, 11:00
Theme: Race
Theme: Race
Part 1: Primary Source Analysis
Source- Study Guide, p. 26 (Marginalization of Jews in 19th-century Europe).
The source synthesizes historical scholarship on the marginalization of European Jews
in the 19th century.¹ Compiled for academic purposes, it outlines how pseudoscientific
racism and nationalism reshaped anti-Semitism.² The historical context includes the rise
of nation-states, which demanded cultural homogeneity, and biological racism,
exemplified by Arthur de Gobineau’s theories of racial hierarchy.³ These ideologies
framed Jews as “foreign” threats, despite their gradual legal emancipation in Western
Europe.⁴