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15th–17th centuries

Host Desecration Accusation

1510·Brandebourg

Toll
trente-huit brûlés

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the Jews of the march arrested, tried and burned in Berlin, the community expelled

An accusation of host desecration was brought in the March of Brandenburg: the Jews of the land were arrested, tried in Berlin, and those who were condemned were burned there; the others were expelled.

The affair began with a coppersmith who, arrested for the theft of church objects, claimed to have sold a host to a Jew. Interrogation proceeded under torture, the accusations were extended to the entire March, and Elector Joachim I had pyres erected in the New Market square. A generation later, the very convert whose testimony had served as the basis acknowledged that everything had been fabricated, and the Elector's son invited the Jews to return.

Period :
15th–17th centuries
Type :
Trials and executions
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Allemagne
Sources

Germania Judaica ; Dossier du procès de Berlin de 1510.

At the same place2

  1. 1446Frederick II has the Jews of the margraviate arrested and their property confiscated before expelling themtoute la communauté
  2. 1571-1573Expulsion from the margraviate of Brandenburg after the trial of Lippold, tortured to death in Berlintoll not established

In the same country303

  1. 1012Expulsion of the community by Henri II; Gershom ben Juda, "light of the exile", loses his son there, forcibly convertedtoute la communauté
  2. 1096Massacres of the First Crusade in the Rhineland~800 à Worms, ~1 000 à Mayence ; total 5 000-12 000
  3. 18 et 25 mai 1096Two massacres~800
  4. Mai-juin 1096The archbishop disperses the community in seven neighboring towns; the crusaders massacre them one by one in Juneplusieurs centaines
  5. 3 mai 1096Sabbath attack by the crusaders of Emicho of Flonheim; Bishop Jean shelters the survivors in his castles and has murderers executed11
  6. 27 mai 1096Assault on the palace of Archbishop Ruthard~1 100
  7. Juin 1096The refugees of Cologne take their own lives in the refectory hall at the moment of the Sabbath mealinconnu
  8. Juin 1096Jews driven into the Danube and forcibly baptized en masse; Henry IV would later permit them to return to Judaismtoute la communauté baptisée

And 295 more in the catalogue.

Event 691 of 2483, in chronological order · 15th–17th centuries: 278 events in the catalogue

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