by hadassah | May 28, 2026 | Popular Violence
Germany, 1348-49, Heinrich Truchessis’s Fourteenth-Century Narrative On the burning of the Jews: in which places and why In that same year, from the feast of John the Baptist until the feast of All Saints, throughout the whole Kingdom of Arles, except in the...
by hadassah | May 28, 2026 | Popular Violence
Germany, 1348–49: Hermann Gigas on the Black Death and the Jews In the year of the Lord 1347, there was such great plague and mortality in almost the whole world that, according to the estimate of trustworthy people, scarcely one person in ten survived. People...
by hadassah | May 28, 2026 | Popular Violence
Xanten, 1096, Solomon bar Simson Chronicle On Friday, the fifth day of the month, on the eve of the Sabbath, at twilight, the enemies, the enemies of God, came upon the pious ones in Xanten. The enemies came upon them at the hour when the Sabbath began. They...
by hadassah | May 28, 2026 | Popular Violence
Jewish Perceptions of Violence Reproduction from the Nuremberg Memorbuch, a medieval Jewish memorial book preserved at Cambridge University Library, Add. MS 1506. The manuscript records the names of Jews martyred in Nuremberg in 1349 and reflects Jewish...
by hadassah | May 28, 2026 | Popular Violence
The Black Death, 1348-49 Anonymous medieval drawing of Jews being burned during the Black Death persecutions, showing the massacre at Strasbourg on February 14, 1349. As plague spread through Europe, Jewish communities were falsely accused of poisoning wells...
by hadassah | May 27, 2026 | Popular Perceptions and Violence
Jews in the Depths of Hell, Thirteenth-Century Collection of Jacob of Voragine It happed on a time S. Macarius found in his way the head of a dead man, and he demanded of it whose head it was, and the head answered: Of a paynim, and Macarius said to him: Where...
