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Count Emico attacks synagogue in Speyer
While traveling to take part in a Crusade, Count Emico of Leiningen assaulted the Speyer synagogue and killed everyone defending it.
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- Count Emico of Leiningen
- Where
- Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Crusader attack on the Jews of Cologne
Crusaders attacked the houses and synagogue of the Jews of Cologne on May 30, and the Jews were then sent for safety to nearby villages.
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- Crusaders
- Where
- Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Crusader attack on the Jews of Treves
Pillaging crusader bands under Emikos advanced on Treves, driving several Jews to suicide while the rest fled to the archbishop's palace.
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- Crusaders under Emikos
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Crusader massacres of Rhenish Jewish communities
Crusaders and mobs slaughtered the Jewish communities of Treves, Speyer, Worms, Mayence and Cologne, and many victims chose self-destruction. About 12,000 are said to have died in the Rhenish cities.
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- Crusaders and mobs
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Crusaders massacre the Jews of Neuss
Crusaders and a large mob attacked the Jews of Neuss, including those who had fled there from Cologne. They killed them all and plundered their houses.
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- Crusaders and a mob
- Where
- Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Destruction of Jewish communities around Treves by Crusaders
Crusaders almost entirely wiped out the neighbouring communities such as Berncastel, Cochem and Wittlich.
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- Crusaders
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Destruction of the Jews of Mainz by Emicho's crusaders
Count Emicho's crusaders forced their way into Mainz and killed nearly all of its Jews, about a thousand, while others killed themselves rather than fall into the mob's hands.
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- Count Emicho and crusaders
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Emicho's massacre of the Jews of Bamberg
Emicho of Leiningen incited a massacre of the Jews of Bamberg during the First Crusade.
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- Emicho of Leiningen
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First Crusade
The First Crusade. Three hosts of crusaders pass through several Central European cities.
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- Count Emicho
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Massacre of Jews at Metz
Crusaders and local rabble killed twenty-two Jews at Metz in the spring of 1096.
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- Crusaders
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Over 5,000 Jews murdered in Germany
In a series of separate attacks across Germany, upward of 5,000 Jews were murdered.
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- Unknown
- Where
- Germany
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Rhineland massacres
Crusaders on their way to the First Crusade, notably bands led by Count Emicho of Leiningen, attacked the Jewish communities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz, killing thousands and forcing others to convert.
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- First Crusade crusaders (Count Emicho and others)
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Worms massacre (1096)
Worms massacre: Anti-Jewish pogrom. Deaths: 800.
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- Emicho
- Where
- Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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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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Forced conversion5
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1,200 Jews of Mainz take their own lives facing forced conversion
In Mainz (Mayence), 1,200 Jews died by suicide rather than submit to Count Emico's attempt to convert them by force.
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- Count Emico
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Forced baptism of Jews in Bohemia
Jews in Prague were compulsorily baptized during the persecutions of the First Crusade.
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- Crusaders
- Where
- Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic
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Forced conversion of the Jews of Regensburg
The Jews of Regensburg suffered the same fate as those of Trier and were forced into baptism by crusaders.
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- Crusaders
- Where
- Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Persecution and forced baptism of the Jews of Trier
Crusaders reaching Trier in June drove the Jews to suicide or to the archbishop's palace, where some were handed over and killed and the rest accepted baptism.
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- Crusaders
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Almoravid demand that Lucena's Jews convert to Islam
Around the turn of the 12th century the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin demanded that the Jews convert to Islam. The community escaped only by paying a heavy bribe, though many Jews left for Navarre.
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- Yusuf ibn Tashfin (Almoravids)
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Discriminatory law2
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Duke Bretislav orders confiscation of Jewish property in Moravia
According to the chronicler Cosmas, when Jews wanted to leave because Crusaders were approaching, Duke Bretislav ordered all their property confiscated. The text calls the report somewhat improbable.
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- Duke Bretislav
- Where
- Moravia, Czech Republic
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Coloman confines Jews to episcopal cities
King Coloman limited Jewish residence to cities that were seats of bishops, so the Church could keep them under constant watch.
- By
- King Coloman
- Where
- Hungary
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Ghettoization1
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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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False accusation (libel)1
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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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