Expulsion5
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Imprisonment of Jews and expulsion of rabbi for missing sermon
After sixteen Jews and their rabbi skipped the sermon on the Day of Atonement, the landgravine had them imprisoned and punished and banished the rabbi.
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- Landgravine of Hesse-Cassel
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Jews driven out of Augsburg
The Jews who had come during the Thirty Years' War, after periodic plundering, were driven out again.
- By
- Augsburg authorities
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Expulsion of Jews from Courland during Cossack uprising
While the Cossack uprising was under way, the people of Courland drove the Jews out of the country.
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- People of Courland
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Duke Eberhard III orders expulsion of Jews from Stuttgart
Duke Eberhard III ordered the Jews expelled because there were too many of them, giving only a few individuals fourteen days to settle affairs.
- By
- Duke Eberhard III
- Where
- Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany
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Parliament of Orange renews expulsion decree
During the first half of the 17th century the parliament of Orange repeatedly renewed the decree expelling Jews.
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- Parliament of Orange
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Massacre / pogrom21
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Execution of Thomas Trebiño de Sobremonte
After years in prison, Sobremonte died as a martyr at the hands of the Inquisition.
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- Mexican Inquisition
- Where
- Mexico
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Five Judaizers of Pernambuco burned at Lisbon
Five Judaizers from Pernambuco were burned at an auto da fé in Lisbon.
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- Portuguese Inquisition
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Massacre of Jews of Brest-Litovsk by Chmielnicki's Cossacks
During the Cossack uprising under Chmielnicki, about 2,000 Jews of Brest-Litovsk were killed and the survivors fled to Great Poland and Danzig.
- By
- Cossacks under Chmielnicki
- Where
- Brest (Brest-Litovsk), Belarus
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Second Cossack attack and massacre of Ostrog Jews
Cossacks attacked the town again and killed nearly all the Jews in a single night, destroying their houses and turning the synagogue into a stable.
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- Cossacks under Chmielnicki
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Violence against Jews in New World
Largest Auto-da-fé in the New World. 109 victims, 13 were burned alive and 57 in effigy.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- The Americas (several countries)
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Chmielnicki massacres in Kremenets
During the Chmielnicki massacres and the following Russian and Swedish wars, many Jews of the area were brutally killed and others fled.
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- Chmielnicki's forces
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Chmielnicki pogroms in Poland
Massacres of Jews in Poland during the Chmielnicki uprising drove Polish Jewish refugees to settle in Amsterdam.
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- Chmielnicki rebels
- Where
- Poland
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Cossack massacre of Jews in Bershad
Jews of Bershad were slaughtered by a Cossack band during the Chmielnicki massacres.
- By
- Cossack bands
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Cossack massacre of Jews in Chełm
During the Cossack uprising most of the town's inhabitants were killed, including about 400 Jews.
- By
- Cossacks
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Cossack massacre of Jews in Kremenetz
During the Cossack uprising many thousands of Jews in Kremenetz were killed, though the community survived.
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- Cossacks
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Cossack massacre of Lutsk Jews
During the Chmielnicki uprising the Jewish community of Lutsk suffered severely and many Jews, Karaites included, were killed.
- By
- Cossacks under Chmielnicki
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Killing of Bykhov Jews during Chmielnicki uprising
Cossacks under Chmielnicki killed most of the Jews of Bykhov who refused to accept Christianity. Some were forcibly baptized.
- By
- Cossacks under Bogdan Chmielnicki
- Where
- Bykhaw (Bykhov), Belarus
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Massacre of Dubno Jews in the Chmielnicki uprising
During the Chmielnicki uprising most of Dubno's Jews were killed after the Poles refused to let them shelter in the fortress.
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- Chmielnicki rebels; Polish authorities denied refuge
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Continued Mexican autos against Judaizers
Autos continued in Mexico, with many Judaizers appearing, and in 1649 many were reconciled to the Church or burned in effigy.
- By
- Inquisition tribunal in Mexico
- Where
- Mexico
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The Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Chmielnicki leads a massacre of Polish gentry and Jewry that leaves an estimated 65,000 Jews dead and a similar number of gentry. The total decrease in the number of Jews is estimated at 100,000.
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- Cossacks
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The Ukrainian Cossacks led by Bohdan Chmielnicki massacre about 100,000 Jews and similar number of Polish nobles, 300 Jewish communities destroyed.
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- Bohdan Chmielnicki massacre about
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Massacre of Ashkenazic Jews under Ibrahim I
Ashkenazic Jews awaiting the Messiah in 1648 were massacred, probably after provoking Moslems with their gatherings.
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- Moslems
- Where
- Turkey
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Jewish prisoners hanged or sent to Lisbon during Portuguese reconquest
During the war between the Portuguese and the Dutch, Jews captured by the Portuguese were condemned and hanged as traitors. Others were shipped to Lisbon for trial.
- By
- Portuguese forces
- Where
- Pernambuco, Brazil
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Khmelnytsky massacres
During the Cossack uprising against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Cossack and peasant forces destroyed hundreds of Jewish communities. Estimates of Jewish deaths range from tens of thousands to over 100,000.
- By
- Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- Where
- Ukraine
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Khmelnytsky pogrom
Khmelnytsky pogrom (also known as Khmelnytsky massacres, or Cossack riots.). Deaths: 100,000.
- By
- Cossacks
- Where
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (several countries)
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Cossack and Tatar attacks on the Jews of Kamenetz-Podolsk
During the Cossack uprising the Jewish community of Kamenetz-Podolsk suffered greatly from Chmielnicki's Cossacks and from Crimean Tatar attacks aimed at extorting ransoms.
- By
- Chmielnicki's Cossacks and Crimean Tatars
- Where
- Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia, Ukraine
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Forced conversion3
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Compulsory conversion sermons for Cassel Jews
Jews of Cassel, including women and children, were compelled to attend weekly conversionist sermons at the town hall.
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- Cassel authorities
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Forced conversion or expulsion of Hamadan Jews under Abbas II
The vizier Mohammed Bey forced Hamadan's Jews to choose between converting to Islam or leaving destitute, and killed those who refused both. Rewards for apostasy led many poor Jews to convert.
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- Mohammed Bey, vizier of Abbas II
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Persecution and forced conversion under Shah Abbas I and II
Persecution and forced conversion begun under Shah Abbas I and renewed under Abbas II struck the Jewish communities of Persia, Isfahan's included, during the 17th century.
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- Shah Abbas I and Shah Abbas II
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Discriminatory law7
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Introduction of the Ordinari real-estate tax on Jews
A special annual tax on Jewish real estate, the Ordinari, was introduced in Öttingen.
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- Counts of Öttingen
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Sigismund II bans Jewish residence in Smolensk
When Smolensk passed to Poland, the king prohibited Jews from living in the city, though some stayed anyway. The ban's date is only implied by the start of Polish rule.
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- King Sigismund II
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Ban on Jewish real estate ownership in Split
Because Jews were growing wealthy, Split prohibited them from owning real estate except with a special license, so that gentiles could not pledge houses and land to Jews.
- By
- Venetian authorities of Split
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Robbery and oppression of Jews by the ḳadi al-'asakir
A military judge sent from Constantinople robbed and oppressed the Jews of Egypt, bringing a severe trial upon them. It probably happened in the seventeenth century.
- By
- Ḳadi al-'asakir sent from Constantinople
- Where
- Egypt
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Toulouse parliament limits Jewish stays in Montpellier
The parliament of Toulouse allowed Jews from the Comtat-Venaissin to stay in Montpellier only one month in each season.
- By
- Parliament of Toulouse
- Where
- Montpellier, Languedoc, France
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Siegburg Jews forced to quarter troops
In the seventeenth century the Jews of Siegburg were made to host troops, in breach of the terms of their charter.
- By
- Unknown
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Jews excluded from Moscow for religious enmity
From the early sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century Jews were barred from living in or entering Moscow because of religious hostility.
- By
- Russian rulers
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False accusation (libel)4
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Execution in effigy of Miguel Nuñez de Guerta
The Inquisition used the bones of Miguel Nuñez de Guerta to carry out his execution in effigy.
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- Inquisition
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Largest New World auto-da-fé targets 109 crypto-Jews
The New World's biggest auto-da-fé ever saw 109 crypto-Jews faced charges of Judaizing, and several of them were burned alive.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- The Americas (several countries)
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Shabbtai Bass, Hebrew bibliographer, jailed over his press
Shabbtai ben Joseph Bass, biblical commentator and author of Siftei Yesharim, the earliest bibliography of Hebrew books, set up a printing house in 1689, though he was imprisoned several times on charges of printing anti-Christian material.
- By
- Unknown
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Spanish Inquisition
Established with papal approval, the Inquisition investigated and tried conversos (converted Jews and their descendants) suspected of secretly practising Judaism. Thousands were executed and many more punished.
- By
- Ferdinand II and Isabella I, with Pope Sixtus IV
- Where
- SpainSpanish Empire (several countries)
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Destruction4
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Destruction of Brest by Cossacks and Tatars
According to a courier's report, Cossacks and Tatars razed Brest, slaying Poles and Jews with their families and burning buildings.
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- Cossacks and Tatars
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Cossacks destroy Lutsk prayer-houses and burn books
During the same uprising the Jewish prayer-houses in Lutsk were destroyed and all the books burned.
- By
- Cossacks
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Destruction of Tarnopol by Chmielnicki's forces
Chmielnicki's Cossack forces devastated Tarnopol on their march through Galicia, destroying the town and its large Jewish population's trade base.
- By
- Chmielnicki's Cossacks
- Where
- Ternopil (Tarnopol), Galicia, Ukraine
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Soldiery burn Jewish quarters of Constantinople
In the seventeenth century, with the sultans weak and Muslim fanaticism growing, soldiers repeatedly set fire to Jewish quarters in order to plunder.
- By
- Ottoman soldiery
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Readmission / emancipation1
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Jews readmitted to Rappoltsweiler under protection tax
Around the middle of the seventeenth century Jews were allowed to resettle, subject to yearly protection taxes and an admission fee for later arrivals.
- By
- Rappoltsweiler authorities
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