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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.
Jewish community banished 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 .
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 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 Zurich Jewish community numbered around 400, and most of them were killed. [7] The property of the Jews was then stolen. Mayor Rudolf Brun for example took possession of the house of a certain Moses. [4] The surviving Jewish women and children were allowed to keep property; however, any surviving Jew was banished. [4]
With the spread of the Black Death in the 14th century, there were pogroms against Jews triggered by rumours of well poisoning.Already at Christmas 1348, before the plague had reached Basel, the Jewish cemetery was destroyed and a number of Jews fled the city.
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Hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed by violence in the Black Death persecutions. Although Pope Clement VI tried to protect them by papal bull on July 6, 1348 – with another following later in 1348 – several months afterwards, 900 Jews were burnt alive in Strasbourg , where the plague hadn't yet affected the city.