Citations:Jewish tax

Fees for Kosher certification

• 2000 May 8, “Is this kosher?”, in Alberta Report:

  Given that non-Jews consume most kosher food, Mr. Prytulak characterizes kosher labelling as a "Jewish tax."

• 2004, Abby L. Ferber, Home-grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism, page 241:

  For example, "Kosher Racket Revealed: Secret Jewish Tax on Gentiles," pamphlet distributed by an anonymous racist group, ca. 1991

• 2008 July 23, “Bubba-meisehs”, in Jerusalem Post:

  The conspiracy Mr. Bubba proudly exposes is the "Jewish tax" that hides in plain sight from unsuspecting non-Jews in secret code on food packaging.

Taxes on Jews

• 1914 July 5, “SIGNIFICANCE OF KIEV IN RECENT RUSSIAN HISTORY”, in New York Times:

  It became a Sort of Jewish tax in Kiev; as tax collectors, the Russian authorities chose pliable Jews-whose business it was to obtain the annuity as best they could

• 1938 December 29, “Czechs Stiffen Toward Refugees As Germans Consolidate Influence”, in New York Times:

  Formerly the State collected on behalf of the Jewish communities a special Jewish tax equal to a fourth of the income tax paid by the Jews.

• 1917, Gotthard Deutsch, Scrolls: Essays on Jewish History and Literature, and Kindred Subjects, page 16:

  The abrogation of the special Jewish tax, decreed by the humane Emperor Joseph II ... The kosher meat, fish and kosher wine, were all subject to excise tax

• 2003, Jamie L. Perez, eve: Temptress Or Victim?, page 78:

  Anyone […] eating kosher, refusing to bow to idols, etc. would be considered a Jew and punished; and anyone who was a Jew would be subject to the Jewish tax.

• 2006, Lisa Moses Leff, Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth Century France, page 60:

  was submitted to the local prefect, who would collect this special Jewish tax along with the regular taxes Jews owed as citizens of France.