Christianity also used to have many restrictions on charging interest, but that got lost somewhere around the 19th century.
It is where the whole "Jews are greedy bankers" stereotype comes from: during the Middle Ages Jews were allowed to charge interest to non-Jews, so they were essentially the only people who could act as bankers for Christians. Combine that with a large dose of racism keeping them out of a lot of other jobs, and you end up with a lot of Jewish bankers.
It is where the whole "Jews are greedy bankers" stereotype comes from: during the Middle Ages Jews were allowed to charge interest to non-Jews, so they were essentially the only people who could act as bankers for Christians. Combine that with a large dose of racism keeping them out of a lot of other jobs, and you end up with a lot of Jewish bankers.