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Rigid enforcement of Pact of Omar restrictions after Almoravid capture
After Yusuf ibn Tashfin captured Fez, the Pact of Omar restrictions on Jews were strictly enforced across North Africa.
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- Yusuf ibn Tashfin
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Councils of Gerona claim a tenth of land Jews buy from Christians
Church councils held at Gerona ruled that a tenth of any landed property a Jew acquired from a Christian must go to the state, limiting Jewish landholding.
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- Councils of Gerona
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Jews confined to special quarters in Languedoc
With rising intolerance in the eleventh century, Jews in Languedoc were required to live in special quarters, and the populace was permitted to humiliate them during Holy Week.
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- Christian authorities and populace
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Orleans Jews accused of causing destruction of Holy Sepulcher
Jews of Orleans were falsely blamed for inciting the caliph Hakim to destroy the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and they had to leave the city temporarily to escape a massacre.
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- Christian public opinion
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This entry records a false accusation made against Jews. The accusation was untrue; it is recorded because of the persecution it caused. About false accusations
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Eleventh-century persecutions affect the Jews of Béziers
Persecutions that broke out in western France in the eleventh century also affected the Jewish community of Béziers.
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- Unknown
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