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The persecution of Jews during the Black Death consisted of a series of violent mass attacks and massacres. Jewish communities were often blamed for outbreaks of the Black Death in Europe . From 1348-1351, acts of violence were committed in Toulon , Barcelona , Erfurt , Basel , Frankfurt , Strasbourg and elsewhere.
The Erfurt massacre was a massacre of the Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany, on 21-22 March 1349. [1] Accounts of the number of Jews killed in the massacre vary widely from between 100 and up to 3000. [2] [3] Any Jewish survivors were expelled from the city. Some Jews set fire to their homes and possessions and perished in the flames before ...
The Strasbourg massacre occurred on 14 February 1349, when the entire Jewish community of several thousand Jews were publicly burnt to death as part of the Black Death persecutions. [1] Starting in the spring of 1348, pogroms against Jews had occurred in European cities, starting in Toulon.
The Basel Massacre was an anti-Semitic massacre in Basel, which occurred in 1349 in connection with alleged well poisoning as part of the Black Death persecutions, carried out against the Jews in Europe at the time of the Black Death. A number of Jews, variously given as between 300 and 600 (according to contemporary Medieval chronicles) or 50 ...
Apparently, some Jews fled to the nearby Kyburg Castle. They hoped to find protection here, but were nonetheless killed in the Kyburg massacre, in which 330 Jews were burned in the fortress. [1] The Zurich Jewish community numbered around 400, and most of them were killed. [7] The property of the Jews was then stolen.
During the Middle Ages, much art was created by Christians that depicted Jews in a fictional or stereotypical manner; the great majority of narrative religious Medieval art depicted events from the Bible, where the majority of persons shown had been Jewish. But the extent to which this was emphasized in their depictions varied greatly.
Listening to the speakers at the Rally for Israel in Washington, D.C., I heard House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries relate “the painful history of the Jewish People.” He said, “For ...
Following the start of the Black Death persecutions, many Jews of Switzerland sought refuge at the Kyburg castle, where they probably started to gather since November 1348. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] They came from the surrounding cities of Diessenhofen and Winterthur , plus all the towns ruled by the Duke of Austria, "who protected them" ( Alliis oppidis ...