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Count Emicho of Flonheim led the largest of the unofficial German crusading armies of 1096. He conducted the substantial Mainz and Worms massacres in May and June, then marched east toward the Holy Land. The Hungarian king Coloman destroyed his army at the Wieselburg bridge in late June. Emicho himself returned home in disgrace.
Read the story →The Worms synagogue was first built in 1034. It was destroyed by Count Emicho's army in 1096, by the Black Death mob in 1349, and by the Nazis on Kristallnacht in 1938. It was rebuilt each time, most recently in 1961. It is the longest continuously rebuilt religious building in central Europe.
Read the story →After the Rhineland massacres of 1096, the papacy issued a formal bull that prohibited the killing or forced conversion of Jews. Every subsequent medieval pope reissued it. The bull was widely violated. It nonetheless established the legal framework on which medieval Jewish communities could appeal.
Read the story →In the spring of 1096, before the First Crusade reached Asia, an army of pilgrims spent six weeks killing the Jewish communities of the Rhine.
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