Penindasan Yahudi Wabah Hitam
Penindasan dan pembantaian Wabah Hitam adalah serangkaian serangan kekerasan terhadap komunitas Yahudi yang dituduh merebakkan Wabah Hitam di Eropa dari 1348 sampai 1351.
Sejarah penindasan
suntingUmat Kristen membenci Yahudi karena mereka tak percaya Yesus Kristus. Kebijakan gereja resmi melindungi Yahudi karena Yesus lahir dari ras Yahudi. Namun pada kenyataannya, Yahudi menjadi target penekanan Kristen.[1] Saat wabah menerjang belahan Eropa pada pertengahan abad ke-14, melenyapkan nyaris setengah populasi, Yahudi dicap sebagai kambing hitam, karena mereka tampak kurang berdampak ketimbang suku bangsa lainnya.[2][3] Tuduhan menyebar bahwa Yahudi menyebabkan penyakit tersebut dengan meracuni sumur.[4][5]
Referensi
sunting- ^ Diane Zahler (2009). The Black Death. Twenty-First Century Books. hlm. 64–. ISBN 978-0-8225-9076-7.
- ^ "Blaming the Jews for the Black Death Plague". www.sixmillioncrucifixions.com. Diakses tanggal 2016-06-09.
- ^ "The Black Death". www.jewishhistory.org. Diakses tanggal 2016-06-09.
- ^ Anna Foa The Jews of Europe After the Black Death 2000 Page 146 "There were several reasons for this, including, it has been suggested, the observance of laws of hygiene tied to ritual practices and a lower incidence of alcoholism and venereal disease"
- ^ Richard S. Levy Antisemitism 2005 Page 763 "Panic emerged again during the scourge of the Black Death in 1348, when widespread terror prompted a revival of the well poisoning charge. In areas where Jews appeared to die of the plague in fewer numbers than Christians, possibly because of better hygiene and greater isolation, lower mortality rates provided evidence of Jewish guilt."