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13th–14th centuries

General seizure of copies of the Talmud ordered by Gregory IX

1239·France, Aragon, Castille, Angleterre

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books confiscated and examined, prelude to the auto-da-fé in Paris

On the denunciation of Nicolas Donin, a convert who had joined the order of the Friars Minor, Pope Gregory IX addressed to the sovereigns of France, Aragon, Castile, Portugal, and England the order to have all copies of the Talmud seized, on a Sabbath day, from the synagogues, and handed over to the Dominicans and Franciscans for examination.

It was the first time that the Church attacked not persons but the book itself, held responsible for Jewish obstinacy. Only the King of France applied the measure with rigor: the seizure opened the way to the disputation of Paris and the auto-da-fé that followed it. The event inaugurated a long history of censorship and confiscation.

Period :
13th–14th centuries
Type :
Trials and executions
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
France
Sources

Solomon Grayzel, *The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century* ; *Vikuah Rabbenou Yehiel mi-Paris* ; Gilbert Dahan, *Le brûlement du Talmud*.

At the same place16

  1. 1007-1012Persecutions under Robert the Pious; expulsion from Mainz (1012); violence in Limoges, Roueninconnu
  2. 1181Philip Augustus cancels debts owed to the Jews in exchange for a fifth paid to the treasury, prelude to the expulsion of the following yeartoll not established
  3. 1182Expulsion from the royal domaintoll not established
  4. 1269Ordinance of Saint Louistoll not established
  5. 22 juillet 1306General arrest and expulsion from the kingdomtoll not established
  6. 1315Louis X recalls the Jews expelled in 1306, against heavy payment and for only twelve yearstoll not established
  7. 1321Affair of the leperscentaines
  8. 1322Charles IV expels the Jews from France anew, eight years after their recalltoute la communauté
  9. 17 septembre 1394Definitive expulsion from the kingdomtoll not established
  10. 1793-1794Closure of synagogues during the Terrorinconnu
  11. 17 mars 1808Legal persecutiontoll not established
  12. 3 oct. 1940Statute of the Jews of Vichy—

And 4 more in the catalogue.

In the same country172

  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 164 more in the catalogue.

Event 195 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue

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