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WHY IN YELLOW? It was the most common color of the badges and clothes Jews were forced to wear in Europe and under Islam. After repeated expulsions and permission to re-enter into various countries (for economic reasons not for "love" of Jews) during the Middle Ages, European anti-semitism continued. The yellow clothes and badges were designed to make the Jew an outcast, and marked him for ready identification for persecution. The yellow was only a garment, it did not reach into the Jewish soul
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