Language:
German
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Jüdische Kultur im Hegau und am See
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2007) 7-28
Keywords:
Jews
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Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Blood accusation
;
Jews
Abstract:
Reconstructs the sequence of massacres of Jews in Konstanz and in the towns around the Bodensee and the adjacent regions. Notes that hostility against Jews had been growing, along with Christian religious fervor. In 1332 there was a blood libel in Überlingen; elsewhere, there were accusations that Jews had desecrated the host. In some of these cases, Jews were tortured and forced to confess; in almost all of the cases, all the Jews of the town were burned at the stake or expelled. The massacres of Jews during the Black Death were supposedly motivated by the allegation that they had poisoned the wells. Argues, however, that the massacres were carried out not by mobs but by the town councils, who were then assuming power; they acted not in the heat of passion or under popular pressure, but deliberately and calculatedly, out of economic interests. The panic and religious fervor of the populace were only enabling factors. Pp. 22-28 discuss the excavation of a Jewish "mikveh" in Radolfzell and Jewish ritual rites in the medieval period.
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