Two literary descriptions of anti-semitism

Israeli-writer born in Czernowitz Aharon Appelfeld is offering a sample of the popular reaction against Jews in Ukraine. A short telling example, at the end of the second Chapter of the novel Caterina, a discussion about the "Jewish difference": "- Why are they (the Jews) like this? - You don't know they killed Jesus? - They did? - Yes". From time to time, there are episodes when, randomly, the Jews are aggressed with no reason on the street, and everything is taking place as part of non-sense diabolic program: they ought to, because it is like a rule of the place. Caterina is getting over the distance between her world and the Jewish world, by working for and with Jewish families. And, at the end of the book and of her journey, when "there are no Jews in the world", she discovers being a living memory of their world and is afraid to do not loose those few memories too. And she is telling her story. In Joseph Roth's Tarabas the violence and hate are reaching the maximum when a painting of Mary is discovered under layers of dye in the house of the Jew with the name Kristianpoller - haven't yet discovered the reason why the author called him with this name. Once discovered the painting, it becomes object of adoration, but in the same time the Jews are considered guilty for hiding the painting - holy now - because, in fact, it is assumed their aim is to hide and destroy everything Christian. And, the same Mary-go-round of permanent aggression is put into practice. Nobody keen to change this, nobody brave enough to oppose it.