13th–14th centuries
General arrest in the cities of the Empire
1385·Nuremberg
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debts annulled, assets confiscated, fiscal persecution of the communities
The free imperial cities, indebted to Jewish creditors and pressed by their patricians, obtain from Venceslas de Luxembourg authorization to arrest the Jews within their walls on a single day. In Nuremberg as in some thirty associated cities, the communities are imprisoned, their loans cancelled, and a portion of their assets confiscated for the benefit of municipal and royal coffers.
The operation is purely financial: no religious accusation accompanies it, and the survivors are released once the levy has been collected. It will be repeated a few years later, and these repeated blows finish ruining a Rhenish and Franconian Jewry that had never recovered from the massacres of the previous century.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
*Deutsche Reichstagsakten* ; Markus Wenninger, *Man bedarf keiner Juden mehr* ; Salo Baron, *A Social and Religious History of the Jews*.