13th–14th centuries
Riot against the Jewry of Kazimierz
1345·Cracovie
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The Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, a suburb of Cracow, was attacked during a riot. Casimir III the Great, who had confirmed and extended the privileges of the Jews of Poland, had the perpetrators prosecuted.
The Poland of this king was then welcoming the communities that Germany was expelling, and the charter of Kalisz, renewed by him, guaranteed them freedom of trade, the protection of their cemeteries, and their own judge. This is the beginning of the great displacement of Ashkenazi Jewry eastward, which would make Poland, for four centuries, its foremost homeland.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Charte de Kalisz ; Chronique de Jan Długosz ; documents royaux polonais.