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Early Middle Ages and Crusades

Rabbenou Tam wounded by five blows from crusaders on the second day of Shavuot, saved by a passing lord

1147·Ramerupt

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Jacob ben Meir, known as Rabbenou Tam, grandson of Rashi and master of the Tosafists, lived in Ramerupt, in Champagne. It was from there that he led the school that refounded the study of the Talmud in northern France and presided over the synods of Troyes.

Crusaders on their way to the East forced their way into his home on the second day of Shavuot, plundered his books and wounded him on the head with several blows, according to the account given by Ephraim of Bonn. A lord who happened to pass by pulled him from their hands by promising to have him baptized, and let him go.

Rabbenou Tam left Ramerupt for Troyes after this episode. His work — the *Sefer ha-Yashar*, his responsa, his rulings on lending, divorce, and the calendar — dominated Ashkenazi Judaism for the following centuries.

Period :
Early Middle Ages and Crusades
Type :
Massacre
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
France
Sources

Ephraïm de Bonn, Livre du souvenir.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Ramerupt.

In the same country186

  1. 576Bishop Avitus has the synagogue destroyed; Jews must choose between baptism and exile to Marseille (Gregory of Tours)>500 baptisés de force
  2. 576-591Forced conversions and expulsions ordered by bishops Théodore, Ferréol and Sulpice; Grégoire the Great protests against forced baptismsinconnu
  3. 582Chilperic I imposes baptism on the Jews of the kingdom; the merchant Priscus, who refuses, is murderedtoll not established
  4. 1007Persecution under Robert the Piousinconnu
  5. 1010Bishop Alduin orders the community to convert or leave the town; violence in the wake of rumors about the destruction of the Holy Sepulchreinconnu
  6. Mai-juin 1096Massacre by crusaders en route to the Orient22
  7. Mai 1096First massacre of the First Crusadeinconnu
  8. 1146The crusaders of the Second Crusade attack the community, which defends itself and perishes in its houseinconnu

And 178 more in the catalogue.

Event 149 of 2483, in chronological order · Early Middle Ages and Crusades: 89 events in the catalogue

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