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What happened at Strasbourg six weeks before the plague reached the city in February 1349?
The Strasbourg city council, dominated by guilds opposed to the cathedral chapter and the Jewish moneylending community, was deposed in early February 1349. The new council, elected on a programme of debt cancellation, organised the burning of approximately 900 Jews in the Jewish cemetery on Saint Valentine's Day, 14 February 1349. The plague did not reach the city until late March.
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The Strasbourg Pogrom of Saint Valentine's Day, 1349 Six weeks before the plague reached the city, the council of Strasbourg deposed its mayors, replaced them, and burned the city's Jewish community alive.
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