Black Death: Scapegoats & Persecution

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***This episode contains a description of mass murder*** As the Black Death moved across Europe, something darker and more insidious spread ahead of it. An antisemitic conspiracy theory that blamed European Jews for the plague. Across Europe, Jews were persecuted and often executed en masse. Maddy and Anthony are joined by Joshua Teplitsky, Professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies Jewish life in Early Modern Central Europe and is currently working on a book about plague in Prague during the early eighteenth century. Edited by Max Carrey. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.