it should be addressed, absolutely. this is a game set in the 1400s and there should be an emphasis on the issues of religious discrimination in a historical context. I would be curious to see how Romani are treated (if they are even addressed) in the game, as well as jews and to the extent it is relevant, muslims. this isn’t a matter of focusing on minority history over european, as it seems is a major concern of several posters, but a focus on the collective history of mankind. every culture has ugly aspects that we would prefer to avoid, but these aspects often make up a major part of our history, and refusing to address issues such as the treatment of other human being is as much an insult to our history as it is a nod to theirs. a major point that this game is trying to make is that history is never black and white, just varying shades of grey. so, in conclusion, there should be an intelligent, well thought out approach to the issue of religious persecution
This debate is very interesting. I am missing one important fact, though, and that is the general tendency of many jews to practice self-segragation. Even today, in 2014, the main Rabbi of Prague preaches against the mixed marriages of jews and non-jews.
I think that is the whole point. Devout Jews were recognizable by their conscious and demarcation “the Jews”. There were also next to countless Jews who intermingled, in the course of the centuries. Almost every European family found in researching their family tree a (Exmpl) Salomon or Miriam, usually around 1600 that was not unusual, and the family was not automatically hated. Just like Freemasons or Cathars was all strange and target of speculation (mostly negative) and was brought out when needed, a really Christian charity (even love your enemies !!) to justify action again speaking.
I’d assume Jewish would be favoured in West Slavic countries at that time against Germanic settlers. There are traces of very aggressive stands of local people against Germans immigrants who were told to be very hard to work things out with. As a result we could expect common neutrality among locals towards Jews and traditional animosity with Germans in cities. And I say it is quite reasonable to expect Jews to be spread also a bit in the country not only concentrated in main cities. If not because they lived there already quite some time in those regions but also because they were mingling a lot with locals around - mitochondrial DNA of Ashkenazi Jews is very rich in additions…
On the other hand Roma people probably appeared in Bohemia only in XVIth and XVIIth century, so they should not be present at the time of this history.
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Anti-semitism and homophobia in 15th century Bohemia would be best addressed through archery.
i think burning at stake or torture was more common
In both cases, this would be a marketing gimmick, which made a splash 
I think that anti-semitism and homophobia in 15th century is ok, but they should never ever include a posibility of harming a woman, because IT WOULD BE FCKING SEXIST!! Sry, coudn’ help it.
We see that the bandwidth is inexhaustible … also an interesting question … and throughout the ages as relevant… 
So I did do some further research into this, it appears the hussites at first were somewhat friendly towards the jews, I’m not a expert in bohemian history so please correct me if I’m wrong my understanding is the game takes place before the Hussite wars, not sure the general bohemian view previous to this.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0009_0_09349.html
I’m no expert either, but I’d say that the jews probably saw an opportunity in Hussites at first and for them everything was probably better than dealing with the Roman Catholic Church. Some of the restrictions placed on jews previously were indeed lifted. However it seems that the jews mostly benefited from the general anarchy that was taking place in Bohemia.
On the other hand the Statuta Judaeorum (legal code for Jews), which granted at least some rights to them stopped being enforced. Not that it was ever very effective. The Hussites in general were likely busy fighting during that period and didn’t care that much about the jew population.
As for the precise period that the game takes place in I’m not entirely sure. However some 14 years earlier on Easter 1389 a large scale mass killing (around 3000 people were killed!) of jews took place in Prague while the king (Wenceslaus IV, reigned 1378-1419) was away from the city. The killing was allegedly encouraged by the clergy and the nobility certainly didn’t do anything to stop it. The perpetrators were never punished.