3/16/2023 0 Comments Jew who promotee blood libel![]() ![]() Rabbi Ephraim ben Yaakov (born in 1132 and died about the year 1200) also witnessed the terrible massacres perpetrated against the Jews by the Crusaders. The story of the burning of over thirty Jews (forty, according to some accounts), men and women, at Blois was recorded by Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn, a great Talmudic scholar (he was one of the Tosafists) and Paytan (religious poet), who lived at that time. Today the, blood libel charges are being made against Israel and the IDF. But the hatred it bred among the Christians towards the Jews was one of the leading causes of Jewish suffering and persecution in Christian lands throughout the centuries. This vicious slander cost the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of innocent Jewish men, women, and children. From there, it spread to continental Europe, where the blood libel in Blois was the first of many to follow from time to time, down to the latest times (Beilis case in 1911), in practically all Christian lands. It was repeated in several other British cities in later years. The first such accusation was made in Norwich, England, in 1144. But none was more wicked than the accusation that Jews require Christian blood for the Passover matzoth or other bizarre, fictitious rituals. Many have been false accusations made by the enemies of the Jews as an excuse for killing and robbing them. Jews simply shunned that horrible place, where the Jewish community was so cruelly destroyed due to a false ritual murder accusation in 1171. It is not a large city (its present population is about 25,000), but it has the “distinction” of being one of the very few cities in France, or for that matter in all of Europe, where there has been no Jewish community for the past 800 years. Blois is a city in France, on the river Loire, not far from Orleans. This was the first known example of a blood libel in continental Europe On (20th of the Jewish month of Sivan), the Jewish community of Blois, France, was massacred after being accused of the ritual murder of a Christian child. ![]()
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