13th–14th centuries
Black Death Massacres in Alsace
1349·Sélestat
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 destroyed community
The community of Sélestat was destroyed during the wave of the Black Death.
As everywhere in Alsace, the debts contracted with Jewish lenders disappeared along with them, and the claims were remitted to the burghers by decision of the councils: the massacre benefited those very people who had organized it.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Sources
Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde ; Ginsburger, Les Juifs d'Alsace.