Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
138 (1996) 157-167
Keywords:
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Jews
;
Crusades
Abstract:
Describes the prosperous condition of the Jews in the Rhineland up to the First Crusade in 1096, when first the fanatical troops of Peter the Hermit and others extorted their money, and then the rabble army of Emicho von Flonheim massacred them in one town after the other. Only in Speyer did the bishop succeed in protecting the Jews. Among the causes names the centuries-old enmity of the Church, the social and political upheavals of the period, envy and suspicion of the Jews' wealth and cosmopolitanism, and the perception of the Crusaders, on their way to fight the infidels in the Orient, that there were "infidels" closer to home.
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