Well-Poisoning Accusations Against Jews: Can we Reconstruct the Jewish Perspective?

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Andreas Lehnertz, « Well-Poisoning Accusations Against Jews: Can we Reconstruct the Jewish Perspective? », medievalJewishStudiesNow!, ID : 10.58079/rhm6


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by Tzafrir Barzilay During the first outbreak of the Black Death, several European minority groups suffered organized arrests, investigations, and executions. The social dynamics that triggered, supported and justified this wave of persecution were propelled by one infamous allegation: that Muslims, Christian lepers, paupers, beggars, and, most notably, Jews, conspired together to poison water sources in order to spread the plague and undermine the ruling Christian elite. The accusation...

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