13th–14th centuries
Massacres of the Black Death in Silesia
1349·Neisse
Toll
inconnu
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
the community destroyed
The community of Neisse, a city of the bishop of Breslau, was destroyed during the Black Death.
The bishop exercised temporal sovereignty there and held the Jews against payment; the city, today Nysa, long remained closed thereafter to organized Jewish life.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Sources
Bondy et Dvorský, Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.