Yellow badge
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The yellow badge (or yellow patch), also referred to as a Jewish badge, was a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments in order to mark them as Jews in public. It is intended to be a badge of shame associated with antisemitism.
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See also
- Antisemitism
- Badge of shame
- Cathar yellow cross
- Christianity and antisemitism
- Dhimmi laws
- History of antisemitism
- Islam and antisemitism
- Judenhut
- Nazi concentration camp badges
- Nuremberg laws
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