History Main / GreedyJew

** ''[[Film/JewSuss1940 Jew Süss]]'' is the most (in)famous example, though the main claim is that Jews rape Aryan women, which is elaborated on towards the end - this is in-keeping with Josef Goebbels's belief that propaganda should be as subtle as possible, so that the people maintain the illusion that their ideas are the product of rational thought and are therefore more likely to commit themselves to them as they are seen as being something personal to them rather than something the state hammers into them. The film was so effective that it reportedly inspired several murders of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, and was shown to concentration camp guards.

* In ''[[Film/LacombeLucien Lacombe, Lucien]]'', a French film about a teenaged boy working with the French Gestapo, one of LesCollaborateurs says of the advancing Allies that "I don't want to be liberated by the Rothschild bank."

* Website/FourChan popularized the infamous [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/happy-merchant "Happy Merchant"]] meme, which has since made it into the broader Internet and gained currency among the usual suspects: namely, "politically incorrect" {{troll}}s and genuine anti-Semites. The original Happy Merchant image was drawn by white supremacist cartoonist Nick Bougas, better known by his pen name, "A. Wyatt Mann."

The origin of the stereotype is arguably OlderThanFeudalism, with characters like Zacchaeus the tax collector, the moneychangers in the Temple, and Judas Iscariot in Literature/TheBible. However, it didn't have any sort of widespread cultural presence until TheMiddleAges. The three main Abrahamic religions--UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}}, UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}--consider [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury usury]] to be sinful, especially to fellow members of the faith. However, Judaism is the only such religion that doesn't have an explicit prohibition on lending to outsiders. Jews also faced numerous restrictions and hardships in medieval Europe: they were often banned from owning land or joining professional guilds, and frequently faced expulsion and persecution from cities and kingdoms for various real or imagined slights against Christians. As a result, many of them worked in jobs that pious Christians couldn't or wouldn't do, such as rent and tax collecting, trading, peddling, and banking.

The origin of the stereotype is arguably OlderThanFeudalism, with characters like Zacchaeus the tax collector, the moneychangers in the Temple, and Judas Iscariot in Literature/TheBible. However, it didn't have any sort of widespread cultural presence until TheMiddleAges. The three main Abrahamic religions--UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}}, UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}--consider [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury usury]] to be sinful, especially to fellow members of the faith. However, Judaism is the only such religion that doesn't have an explicit prohibition on lending to outsiders. Jews also faced numerous restrictions and hardships in medieval Europe: they were often banned from owning land or joining professional guilds, and frequently faced expulsion from cities and kingdoms for various real or imagined slights against Christians. As a result, many of them worked in jobs that pious Christians couldn't or wouldn't do, such as rent and tax collecting, trading, peddling, and banking.

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* Rom Hack ''VideoGame/PokemonClover'', which tries to be as offensive as possible, has this in both human and Pokemon form.
** Pokemon-wise we have Chantruth, a Pokemon that looks like a racist caricature, carrying a bag of money and whose Pokedex entry claims that it likes swindling other pokemon with its bargains. It also has a good chunk of moves based around stealing.
** Human-wise we have the Merchant trainer class, based on the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/happy-merchant Le Happy Merchant]] meme. They tend to carry money and jewelry based Pokemon, with Chantruth being a constant. They are also the only trainers that give you absolutely no money when you beat them. [[spoiler:Also, if you use the move Thief against a merchant, a group of them will ambush you at the entrance to the Pokemon league.]]