Persecution of Jews during the Black Death

Representation of a massacre of the Jews in 1349 Antiquitates Flandriae (Royal Library of Belgium manuscript, 1376/77)

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. The persecutions led to a large migration of Jews to Jagiellonian Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. There are very few Jewish sources on Jewish massacres during the Plague.[1]

  1. ^ Raspe, Lucia (2004). "The Black Death in Jewish Sources: A Second Look at Mayse Nissim". Jewish Quarterly Review. 94 (3): 471–489. doi:10.1353/jqr.2004.0001. ISSN 1553-0604. S2CID 162334762.

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