| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In Breslau, in 1349 sixty Jews were executed for having caused a town fire, but, says Roth, when one recalls that 300 years afterwards the Great Fire of London was [blamed upon] the Papists, one realizes that the Jews had no monopoly on unjust accusations. [ROTH, p. 144] Jewish communities themselves had irrational superstitions to scapegoat others and to explain disease and other misfortunes.
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