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By late 1349, the worst of the pogroms had ended in Rhineland. However, the massacres of Jews was starting to rise near the Hansa townships of the Baltic coast and in Eastern Europe. By 1351, there had been 350 incidents of anti-Jewish pogroms, and 60 major and 150 minor Jewish communities had been exterminated.
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 .
In particular, they have struggled to understand why, “far . from taking any steps to prevent outbreaks, the Emperor in several instances gave beforehand practical immunity to the perpetrators of the crime, by making ar-rangements as to what should be done with the houses and goods of the Jews in the event of a riot” (Jacobs 1912, p. 278). 3
Basel Massacre. Coordinates: 47°33′17″N 7°35′26″E. The Basel Massacre was an anti-Semitic episode 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.
- January 16, 1349
- Basel
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Aug 24, 2014 · The assault on the Jewish quarter of Cologne took place on the eve of St. Bartholomew’s Day, the night between August 23 and 24. According to some chronicles, many of the Jews elected to lock themselves within their synagogue and burn it down, rather than finding themselves confronted with a demand that they undergo baptism.
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Jul 4, 2011 · The mass violence of the Kielce pogrom drew on an entrenched local history of antisemitism—especially false allegations accusing Jews of using the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes (a charge known as a “blood libel”)—with the intent of discouraging the return of Jewish Holocaust survivors to Poland. While the pogrom was ...
Jan 8, 2018 · Sliwa points out that Kielce was not the first post-war pogrom against Jews in Poland; smaller outbursts of violence took place the previous year in Krakow and the town of Rzeszow.
