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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Where did the stereotype of Jews being obsessed with money come from? Doesn't everyone like money?
gpt
In the Middle Ages, Christians believed that lending money and collecting interest was a sin, but tolerated it as a so called "necessary evil". At the time many jobs were closed to the Jews, as for various reasons, medieval society was very anti-semitic. The fact that many mainstream jobs were closed to the Jews drove them to jobs considered socially inferior or sinful, such as money lending and tax collecting. This led to many Christians being in debt to Jews, increasing the tensions between the two groups and the negative stereotype of the Jews being obsessed with money.