Victim-blaming rationalized Jewish persecution from early Christianity through the pre-Nazi era.

Evidence

In terms of explanations, with only a few exceptions, until the Nazi era, it was assumed in the non-Jewish world that the Jews had brought on their own misfortune. In Christian tradition, the accusation of deicide, followed by Jewish “stubbornness” in not recognizing Jesus as the messiah, explained and justified the continuing pariah status and persecution of the Jews, typified by the construction in popular culture of the “wandering Jew,” forever doomed to live in miserable exile. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 483