>>512358058It's both and both, Christians often scapegoated Jews, but at the same time, Medieval Jews mostly made money through crime and tax farming and scamming aristocrats through loan sharking, while being incredibly obnoxious about it.
Think of Medieval Jews as basically Gypsy tier antisocial types, but unlike Gypsies, Jews were incredibly well educated and well read, so were able to more successfully engage in crime and scams and make shitloads of money.
In places like Poland, Lithuania etc, Jews were literally richer and more powerful than the aristocracy and there is tonnes of Yiddish stories about how fucking rad they were and how much they fucked over Goyim.
I actually recommend people to read JEWISH history books, because they always pretty much outright admit this stuff, just play it off as "sucks to be them, they just hated us because we were better".
Some I've read
Alan Edelstein - An Unacknowledged Harmoney
Simon Dubnov - History of the Jews
Bernard Weinryb - Jews of Poland
Salo Baron - A Social and Religious History of the Jews
Max Dimont - Jews, God and History.
>t. studied Eastern European history at University.