Everything about The Rintfleisch-pogrom totally explained
The
Rintfleisch-Pogrom was a
pogrom against
Jews in the year 1298.
It was set during the civil strife between King
Adolf of Nassau and his rival
Albert of Austria, when imperial authority, traditionally concerned with the protection of the Jews, had temporarily collapsed.
The Jews of the
Franconian town of
Röttingen were accused of having obtained and desecrated a consecrated
host. One "Lord Rintfleisch", whom the sources refer to either as an impoverished knight or a butcher (the name "Rindfleisch" means "beef" in
German), pretended to have received a mandate from
heaven to avenge the sacrilege and exterminate the Jews. He gathered a mob around him and burned the Jews of Röttingen on
April 20. After this, he and his mob went from town to town and killed all Jews that fell into their power, destroying the communities at
Rothenburg-on-Tauber,
Würzburg,
Nördlingen and
Bamberg.
In
Nuremberg, the Jews sought refuge in the fortress and were assisted by the Christian citizens, but Rintfleisch overcame the defenders and butchered the Jews on
1 August. The
Nürnberger Memorbuch contains the names of numerous murdered Jews, among them
Mordecai ben Hillel, a pupil of
Jehiel ben Asher, with his wife and children. The communities at
Regensburg and
Augsburg alone escaped the mass killing, as they were protected by the cities' magistrates.
Spreading from Franconia to
Bavaria and
Austria, the persecutors destroyed 146 communities, about 20,000 jews were killed.
King Albert I, having overcome Adolf and assumed the crown, finally had Rintfleisch arrested and hanged. The cities in which Jews had been killed were required to pay fines to the king.
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