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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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The country toward which they
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Jews in 1254, treated than badly, and turned their eyes was Poland.
Poland m as consolidated tinder
then invited them back. Philip IV
expelled them, and nine years after- Casimir III, the Great in the four-
wards, in 1315, his successor, Louis X, teenth century and was made still
recalled them. They were finally greater by the marriage of his grand.
niece and heiress to Yagtiello, the
expelled by Charles VI in 1394.
Grand Duke of Lithuania, who there-
Accused of Black-Death Sorcery.
In 1.148 and 1.147 there Caine the upon became the King of Poland. and
plague of the - black death" all over the founder of a dynasty which ruled
from the latter part of the fourteenth
Europe. Probably because of the hy-
gienic effect of the Nlositic and Tal- to the latter part of the sixteenth
mud law, to which the Jews con- century.
\t the height of its expansion the
formed with rigidity, they escaped
Polish monarchy reached from the
the nn ages of the epidemic.
'rids nas noted among the people, Baltic to the Black Sea and covered
and at once the report spread that an urea which down to this day har-
the plague had come from the wells bors the great bulk of the Jewish
poisoned by the Jews, and another population of Europe. If we leave
series of massacres of these pour out Prussian Poland and .\ ustrian
Galicia. the Russian present Jewish
pc0111t . followed everywhere. During
the plague, Pope Clement VI issued pale of settlement neatly veintides
ith the boundaries of !Ilk auckiit
Ino hills in an attempt to protect
Poland.
the Jews.
A "Jewish Judge" Appointed.
The him, ill the course of the cen-
In 1.1,14 Casimir the Great of Po- I
turies, huw cycr, issued many hulls
against the Jews. The 1111115 were land confirmed a charter of general
enforced with much severity in other pritiinens to the Jews which had
countries than by the Popes them- originally been given by a predeces-
Selves, w h o in actual administration sor in 1204. The charter insured the
often exhibited much leniency toward economic progress of the Jews and
this unfortunate race (anon law had gave guaranties of their personal and
forbidden the taking 451 interest or religious security.
usury by Christians; but this did not
They we re exempted from the
apply to the Jews. and as the Jews jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical as
had the money they. did the lending. well as the municipal law courts and
They thus became objects of interest
"lowish judge," so-called. was ap-
to the kings of the various countries pointed to act in their cases, signifi-
nlio had to borrow money, and they cant 14 the abuses to which they had
were !Haile private Servants of the been subjected.
I onarchs; servi CAMerie, a position
Cassimir's liberality attracted Jews
of apparent privilege which, however, from every quarter of Europe and
in the end only subjected the Jews greatly increased their number in
to greater persecution. Poland.
Charged. With Human Sacrifice.
After the Yaguello dynasty,. the
An uncertain tolerance was the amore passed from the kings to the
.,lily relief from constant persecution, Polish nobility, or Shlakta, and the
w hich was their usual condition after protection to the Jews grew less and
the crusades and the black plague. less. The burghers were hostile to
1.1 ■ cry excuse for attacking them was mein becatise of their competition,
seized. Huss in Bohemia proclaimed and the nobility, while using them
his adherence to the teachings of as agents to conduct their estates,
1Vycliffe in 1420. Ile was persecuted were arbitrary, cruel, and tyrannical.
by the church—lint so, too, were the lhaos ensiled and the condition of
Jews--for his agitation among Chris- the Jews grew worse. They were
tians, with which they had naught forbidden to hold land. The nobility
to do. manufactured the liquor, and they
In 1481 the Inquisition was set on were willing and anxious to have the
foot in Spain, and in 1492, alter Jews sell it, who thus, for lack of
Gramla fell, the Jews were expelled. other occupation, became the inn-
They were driven into northern keepers, the purveyors in the demor-
Africa, into Turkey, and into Italy.
\Vhenever bitterness or prejudice alizing
The liquor
reduction
business.
and elimination of
er private motive prompted hostility the l'olish Kingdom during the
to the Jens, a common form of ac- seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
cusation was that of murder, and transferred the bulk of the Jews of
offering of a sacrifice of a Gentile the world to the jurisdiction of Rus-
child in their religious ceremonies sia, Germany, and Austria. Poland
was charged. A trial was had and, lost many of its provinces to Russia
whether conviction followed or not, before the three formal partitions in
the eighteenth century.
persecutions ran riot.
Except in the part of her Empire
This method of attack has, as we
know continued down to the present which Russia acquired from Poland,
generation in sonic countries. Lecky, Russia never had and has not now
in his "History of Morals in Europe," but a very few Jews. Her eager
points out that this form of charge acquisition of her share of Poland,
was made against many different however, placed nearly half of the
sects in pagan Route—against the Jews of the world within her juris-
Christians as well as others. It has diction. They had not sought it
survived only against the Jews.
The Flight to Holland.
Poland Once a Land of Refuge.
' The adoption of the Inquisition by
The effect of the crusades, the Spain in the fourteenth and fifteenth
black plague, the Inquisition in Spain, centuries led many of the Spanish
the Huss persecutions in Bohemia, Jews to become baptized into the
and the annual massacres in Austria Catholic Church and to go through
in the time of Rudolph of Ilapsburg, the form of Christian worship, re-
was to drive the Jews to seek refuge
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