Other Medieval Persecutions and Their Commemorations

In this lecture, Rabbi Schacter covers several other notable instances of persecution against Jews during the Middle Ages: the massacre of the Jews of York in 1190, the mass burning of the Talmud and other Jewish texts in 1242, the Black Death massacres, and the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. Each of these events were remembered differently. Some were folded into the Ninth of Av, while others were given their own particular fast days. Rabbi Schacter explains what happened, and how and why those choices were made.