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How was the Jewish community of Basel killed in the massacre of 9 January 1349?
Five weeks before the better-known Strasbourg massacre, the Basel city council built a wooden house on an island in the Rhine, locked roughly 600 of its Jews inside, and set it on fire. The Black Death had not yet reached Basel; the killing was a pre-emptive response to well-poisoning rumours encouraged by debt-relief politics.
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The Pogrom That Came Before Strasbourg Five weeks before the Strasbourg massacre, Basel built a wooden house on an island in the Rhine, locked roughly six hundred of its Jews inside, and burned it.
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