Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1348: Jews Aren’t Behind the Black Death, Pope Clarifies: The Jews were also dying of plague, Pope Clement VI pointed out in two bulls, with unusual rationality for the time but to very little avail byDavid B. Green on the Haaretz website on July 06, 2016.
Pope Clement VI beseeched Christians not to blame Jews for the Black Death, but it didn’t help, as shown by this 1349 drawing of Jews being burned for ostensibly causing the plague.Wikimedia Commons