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The Erfurt massacre was far from an isolated incident. The orgy of violence began in northern Spain and southern France in the spring of 1348, ostensibly because the gentiles believed Jewish communities were the source of the Black Death. In the summer and autumn of 1348, several Jews in the French Alps confessed—albeit after being tortured on the rack—to causing the plague by poisoning wells.[22] Similar rumors spread across the German-speaking world faster than the disease itself—and so did the attacks against Jewish communities. These conspiracy theories appear to have been have widely ...more
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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