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  2. Persecution of Jews during the Black Death - Wikipedia

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    Many hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed in this period. Within the 510 Jewish communities destroyed in this period, some members killed themselves to avoid the persecutions. [16] Map of anti-Jewish persecutions in Europe around the time of the Black Death. In the spring of 1349, the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main was annihilated.

  3. Strasbourg massacre - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Erfurt massacre (1349) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Basel Massacre - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. Zürich massacre - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Black Death - Wikipedia

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    The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.

  8. Medieval antisemitism - Wikipedia

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    The Black Death plague devastated Europe in the mid-14th century, annihilating more than a half of the population, with Jews being made scapegoats. Rumors spread that they caused the disease by deliberately poisoning wells. Hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed by violence, in particular in the Iberian peninsula and in the Germanic Empire.

  9. Persecution of Jews - Wikipedia

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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.