18th century
Auto-da-fé of the Talmud renewed after the Lwów disputation
1759·Kamieniec Podolski
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copies seized from synagogues and burned
After the disputation of Lwów, where the Frankists had upheld against the rabbis the accusation of ritual murder, the auto-da-fé of the Talmud is renewed at Kamieniec Podolski: copies seized from the synagogues are burned on the orders of the bishop.
The episode has this particular quality: the accusation comes from within the Jewish world — from the disciples of Jacob Frank, in the process of conversion, who offer the Church the argument it had been seeking. The community finds itself attacked by a messianic dissidence and by ecclesiastical authority at once, with no recourse against either.
- Period :
- 18th century
- Type :
- Trials and executions
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Actes de la disputation de Lwów ; chroniques rabbiniques de Podolie.