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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.
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 .
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 ...
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.
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.
Judenfrei describes the local Jewish population having been removed from a town, region, or country by forced evacuation during the Holocaust, though many Jews were hidden by local people. Removal methods included forced re-housing in Nazi ghettos especially in eastern Europe , and forced removal or Resettlement to the East by German troops ...