Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Der Erste Kreuzzug 1096 und seine Folgen
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1996) 37-75
Keywords:
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Jews
;
Crusades
Abstract:
Based on a lecture held in Trier, September 1994. Traces the history of Jewish settlement in the Rhineland, finding isolated anti-Jewish incidents in the century leading up to the Crusades. Notes that 1096 was a year fraught with messianic expectations; Christians believed that the Jews would now, at the end of time, convert. This was the impetus behind the demand "baptism or death" which set off the pogroms of the First Crusade. The perpetrators were the "People's Crusade" led by Peter the Hermit, and especially the following of the millenarian Emicho von Flonheim - not the main body of Crusaders. Describes the massacres in each of the major towns, the bishops' attempts to protect the Jews, and the Jews' martyrdom. States that in the subsequent Crusades the intervention of secular and Church authorities prevented pogroms. But in 1241 there was a pogrom in Frankfurt, and in 1287 a wave of pogroms was set off by a blood libel.
Note:
Appeared previously in "Monatshefte für Evangelische Kirchengeschichte des Rheinlandes" 44 (1995) 37-76.
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