Editing Yellow badge (section)

{{Short description|Badge forced to be worn by Jews at various times in history}}
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[[File:Juif.JPG|thumb|Yellow star labeled {{lang|fr|Juif}}, the [[French language|French]] term for ''Jew'', that was worn during the [[Nazi occupation of France]].]]
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The '''yellow badge''', also known as the '''yellow patch''', the '''Jewish badge''', or the '''yellow star''' ({{langx|de|Judenstern}}, {{Literal translation|Jew's star}}), was an accessory that [[Jews]] were required to wear in certain non-Jewish societies throughout history. A Jew's ethno-religious identity, which would be denoted by the badge, would help to [[Badge of shame|mark them as an outsider]].<ref>{{cite book |last=D'Ancona |first=Jacob |author-link=Jacob of Ancona |url=https://archive.org/details/cityoflight0000jaco_t7c4 |title=The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo |publisher=Citadel Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-8065-2463-4 |location=New York |pages=23–24 |translator-last=Selbourne |translator-first=David |quote=But the wearing of a badge or outward sign – whose effect, intended or otherwise, successful or not, was to shame and to make vulnerable as well as to distinguish the wearer – was one thing. |translator-link=David Selbourne |url-access=limited}}</ref> Legislation that mandated Jewish subjects to wear such items has been documented in some Middle Eastern [[Caliphate|caliphates]] and in some European kingdoms during the [[Middle Ages|medieval period]] and the [[early modern period]]. The most recent usage of yellow badges was during [[World War II]], when Jews living in [[Nazi Germany]] and [[German-occupied Europe]] were ordered to wear a yellow [[Star of David]] to keep their Jewish identity disclosed to the public in the years leading up to [[the Holocaust]].