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"The Approach of the Black Death in Switzerland and the Persecution of Jews, 1348–1349," Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 43 (2007), no. 3, pp. 4–23. Winkler, Albert (2017). “The Clamor of the People”: Popular Support for the Persecution of Jews in Switzerland and Germany at the Approach of the Black Death, 1348-1350.
Contemporary drawing of Jews being burned to death during the Black Death persecutions. Antiquitates Flandriae (Royal Library of Belgium manuscript 1376/77).. The causes of the increased anti-semitism are easy to make out [citation needed].
During World War II and the Holocaust, antisemitism was a factor that limited American Jewish action during the war, and it also put American Jews in a difficult position. It is clear that antisemitism was a prevalent attitude in the US, and it was even more widespread in America during the Holocaust .
Erfurt later suffered the ravages of the Black Plague, where over 16,000 residents died during a ten-week period in 1350. [7] Among those murdered was prominent Talmudist Alexander Suslin. [8] A few years after the 1349 massacre, Jews moved back to Erfurt and founded a second community, which was disbanded by the city council in 1458.
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As many as 900,000 Jewish refugees fled or were violently expelled from Muslim-majority countries in the 20 th century (most in 1948 with the creation of the Jewish State) and 650,000 refugees ...
The Jews left the city, and city decrees were issued to prevent them from returning. [4] Subsequently, the Jews were expelled from Bern (1427) and Zürich (1436). [10] As for Basel, the only exception were a few Jews who were later allowed to live in the city from the 16th century because they worked for the Hebrew printers.
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 ...