Emicho+of+Flonheim

SEE JOTISCHKY P. 70

1096 German count Emich of Flonheim initiated a massacre of Jews in Rhineland towns by crusaders en route for the East..... also happened in the second and third crusades

persecution sparked by resentment at perceived Jewish prosperity

English and French royals encouraged Jews to engage in money-lending knowing that church law forbade Christians fom the profession. also taxed them like crazy---JEWS HAD TO ACCUMULATE MONEY IN ORDER TO STAY IN THE KINGDOM

significance:

manifestation of Europe's feeling that they are at the center of a pagan world pressing down on them from all sides---weave conspiracy theory about jews and persecute them