Latest / Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time
The Crusades and the Jews in 10 Minutes
Witness the moment when the "Golden Age" of European Jewish life collided with a surge of religious fanaticism in our episode on The Crusades and the Jews. While the Crusades were ostensibly launched in 1095 to reclaim the Holy Land, the first victims of this religious fervor were the Jewish communities living in the Rhineland. We'll unpack the harrowing "Rhineland Massacres" of 1096, where local mobs and bands of crusaders targeted flourishing centers of learning in Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. We'll explore the agonizing theological and communal responses to this unprecedented violence…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.