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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.
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 .
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 .
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.
1349 burning of Jews (from a European chronicle written on the Black Death between 1349 and 1352) 1349 The Erfurt massacre was a massacre of around 3,000 Jews as a result of Black Death Jewish persecutions 1349 The entire Jewish population of Speyer is destroyed. All Jews are either killed, converted, or fled. All their property and assets was ...
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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 ...