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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. By November of that year they spread via Savoy to ...
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. 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.
Allegations that Jews were responsible for the Black Death. 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.
- Massacre, pogrom
- Jews
- 21 March 1349
- Erfurt
Aug 23, 2012 · On this day in 1349, riots in the German city of Mainz took the lives of some 6,000 Jews. Europe was then in the throes of the Black Death, one of its most devastating outbreaks of bubonic plague, which between 1348 and 1350 killed between and one-third and two-thirds of the continent’s population. Now it is known that the disease originated ...
- David B. Green
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Aug 24, 2014 · On August 24, 1349, the Jewish quarter of Cologne, Germany, was attacked by an angry crowd, and most of its residents killed. Their property was then plundered and divvied up between the ransackers, the city government and the Church. Ostensibly, the justification for the massacre was the belief that Jews were responsible for the Black Death ...
- David B. Green
- dbgiht@gmail.com
Both – profiles and motives – defy simplistic answers and require explanation. Between 1933 and 1939, the whole apparatus of the Nazi party and its affiliated organizations was involved in antiJewish violence. The party’s violent acts were set into motion mostly by activists and members living next door to the victims.
Mar 1, 2018 · Anti-Jewish riots called pogroms swept the Russian Empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and anti-Semitic incidents have increased in parts of Europe, the Middle East and ...
