{"id":2209,"date":"2012-07-24T21:07:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/24\/trial-of-jews-of-trent-year-1478-type\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:49:07","slug":"trial-of-jews-of-trent-year-1478-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/24\/trial-of-jews-of-trent-year-1478-type\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2209 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/24\/trial-of-jews-of-trent-year-1478-type\/attachment\/2210\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tumblr_m5z9v5deDf1r3qmd1o1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em><strong>Trial of Jews of Trent<\/strong><\/em><br \/><small><strong>Year<\/strong>: 1478<br \/><strong>Type<\/strong>: Manuscript, handwritten on paper<br \/><strong>Country<\/strong>: Trent, Germany<br \/><strong>Repository<\/strong>: Yeshiva University Museum<br \/><\/small><\/p>\n<p>In 1475, a two-year-old Christian boy named Simon disappeared in Trent, a small town in Germany. He was eventually found dead in the cellar of a local Jewish man, which began a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_libel_against_Jews\" target=\"_blank\">blood libel<\/a> and a fraudulent, violent investigation. Already brimming with antisemitism from a recent fiery sermon given by the area&rsquo;s friar, townsfolk became convinced the boy was murdered by Trent&rsquo;s small Jewish community as a blood ritual. Men and women from all eighteen Jewish families in the town were arrested and tortured into confessing their crimes. The trial finally culminated in six men being burned at the stake and two beheaded.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Wurtemberg ordered a trail record to be written, and the only surviving German copy can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.cjh.org\/view\/action\/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=1033084.xml&amp;dvs=1340304308684~307&amp;locale=en_US&amp;search_terms=&amp;adjacency=&amp;VIEWER_URL=\/view\/action\/nmets.do?&amp;DELIVERY_RULE_ID=1&amp;usePid1=true&amp;usePid2=true\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial of Jews of TrentYear: 1478Type: Manuscript, handwritten on paperCountry: Trent, GermanyRepository: Yeshiva University Museum In 1475, a two-year-old Christian boy named Simon disappeared in Trent, a small town in Germany. He was eventually found dead in the cellar of a local Jewish man, which began a blood libel and a fraudulent, violent investigation. Already brimming with antisemitism from a recent fiery sermon given&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1133,8,1134,1132,43],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-15th-century","tag-history","tag-manuscript","tag-trent","tag-yeshiva-university-museum","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}