13th–14th centuries
Ritual murder accusation called 'of Rudolf'
1294·Berne
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Jews tortured and executed, survivors expelled from the city
A ritual murder accusation targeting a child named Rudolf was brought in Berne. The Jews of the city were arrested, subjected to torture, and executed; the survivors were expelled and their property seized by the municipality, which erected a fountain and established a local cult at the supposed site of the crime.
The cult of the child was maintained for centuries and was not officially abandoned until the twentieth century. As at Norwich and Trente, the fabrication of a local saint fixed in stone and in liturgy an accusation whose basis no inquiry ever established.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Trials and executions
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Suisse
*Conradi de Fabaria Casus* ; Justingerchronik ; Gavin Langmuir, *Toward a Definition of Antisemitism*.