This map illustrates the spread of the Black Death in 1348-49 through central Europe (predominantly in what is now Germany and northern Switzerland). Places and dates are listed indicating where outbreaks against Jews occurred between 1348 and 1349, during the peak of this medieval pandemic. The Black Death killed between 75 and 200 million people worldwide.
Image courtesy of the Jewish Encyclopedia (1902). Click here to enlarge.
Learning Extension: Have students research how and where European Jews ended up settling in the decades and centuries following the outbreaks.
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