15th–17th centuries
Pogrom
1407·Cracovie
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On Easter Sunday, a preacher in Cracovie announced from the pulpit that Jews had killed a Christian child and desecrated the host. The crowd moved on the Jewish quarter of the city.
Houses were pillaged and burned, inhabitants killed, children abducted and baptized. The fire spread to part of the city, which brought the riot to an end. Those who managed to take refuge in the church of Saint-Anne or in the homes of burghers survived.
Ladislas II Jagellon, who protected the Jews of his kingdom by charter, had ringleaders prosecuted and ordered restitution. Cracovie remained a great center of learning — one of the most important in Europe in the following century, with Moïse Isserles — but the community was transferred to Kazimierz.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Jan Długosz, *Annales* ; archives municipales de Cracovie.