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13th–14th centuries

Easter pogrom

1389·Prague

Toll
400 à 3 000 selon les sources

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

On Easter Sunday, a priest carrying the Blessed Sacrament through the Old Town claimed to have been struck by Jewish children. The city rose up against the community of Prague, one of the oldest in central Europe.

The quarter was set ablaze, the synagogue forced open, the Torah scrolls torn to pieces, the cemetery desecrated. King Wenceslas IV was absent; upon his return, he claimed what remained of the property, on the grounds that it belonged to him.

Rabbi Avigdor Kara, who survived, composed an elegy — *Et kol ha-tela'ah*, "All This Distress" — which describes the scenes one by one. It has been recited on Yom Kippur in the synagogues of Prague ever since, and the tombstone of Avigdor Kara, the oldest in the old Jewish cemetery, can still be seen today.

Period :
13th–14th centuries
Type :
Pogrom
Region :
Central and Eastern Europe
Country :
Tchéquie
Sources

Avigdor Kara, élégie « Et kol ha-tela'ah » ; chroniques de Bohême.

At the same place15

  1. Juin-juill. 1096Massacre and forced baptisms by the Crusaders of Volkmar, despite the opposition of Bishop Cosmasinconnu
  2. 1385Riot against the jewryinconnu
  3. 1422Hussite attacks against the Jewry of the Old Towninconnu
  4. 1541Expulsion ordered by Ferdinand I after the fires of Prague, attributed to Jewstoll not established
  5. 1547Ferdinand I orders the expulsion of Jews from Bohemia following the revolt of the estatestoute la communauté
  6. 1561New Attempt at Expulsion of the Jews of Bohemiatoute la communauté
  7. 1611Invasion by the Troops of Passauinconnu
  8. 1743Plunder of the Jewish quarter by French and Bavarian troops upon the city's departure, on the eve of the expulsion decreeinconnu
  9. 1744-1745Expulsion ordered by Marie-Thérèse (decree of December 18, 1744)>10 000 expulsés
  10. 29 nov.-2 déc. 1897December riots following the fall of the Badeni ordinancestoll not established
  11. 15 mars 1939Occupation of Prague and creation of the Protectoratebilan non établi
  12. 16 oct. 1941First convoys from Prague to Łódźbilan non établi

And 3 more in the catalogue.

In the same country31

  1. Juin 1096Volkmar's crusaders massacre the community after Prague, on the road to Hungaryinconnu
  2. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in Bohemiainconnu
  3. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in Bohemiainconnu
  4. 1349Black Death Massacres in Moraviainconnu
  5. 1349Black Death massacres in Moraviainconnu
  6. 1349Black Death massacres in Moraviainconnu
  7. 1349Black Plague Massacres in Moraviainconnu
  8. 1453Expulsion of Jews from the royal cities of Moravia following the sermons of Jean de Capistrantoute la communauté

And 23 more in the catalogue.

Event 546 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue

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