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A significant consequence of the Black Death was the Christian pogroms against Europe’s Jews. After Jewish people were accused of poisoning the wells and causing the Black Death, a wave of pogroms took place. In January 1349, the entire Jewish community of Basel was burned at the stake. In Cologne, Jews were forced to flee, and the Jewish communities of Freiburg, Augsburg, Nurnberg, Munich, Konigsberg, Regensburg, and other centers, were either exiled or burned. In Mainz, a city that once had the largest Jewish community in Europe, Jewish people had to defend themselves against a Christian mob, killing over 200 Christian. The Christians later retaliated and killed six thousand Jews in one day, on August 24, 1349. None of the 3,000 Jews in Erfurt survived the attack of Christian mobs and, by 1351, there were almost no Jews left in Germany or the Low Countries. While Jewish people eventually moved back to Western Europe, it would never again be the center of Jewish life as it had been for almost four centuries.

Sources: history.com, jewishhistory.org