13th–14th centuries
Second burning of the Talmud on the Grève square, after that of 1242
1244·Paris
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The Talmud was burned a second time at the place de Grève in Paris, following the condemnation pronounced at the conclusion of the dispute de Paris and the first auto-da-fé of cartloads of manuscripts. The masters of the French school had pleaded in vain before Queen Blanche.
The loss was irreparable: the destroyed manuscripts were unique copies, made by hand and annotated by generations. Meïr de Rothenbourg, a witness to the scene in his youth, composed an elegy that entered the liturgy of the ninth of Av, when the destruction of the Temple has been mourned ever since — the book therein takes its place as a sanctuary.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Élégie de Meïr de Rothenbourg ; procès-verbal de la dispute de Paris ; Odon de Châteauroux, Lettres.