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Talmud, burning of the


Subject Religion » Judaism

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631187288.1992.x


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From the Middle Ages the attempted suppression of Judaism led at intervals to the wholesale destruction of copies of the Talmud and other Jewish texts. The first official burning of the Talmud took place in Paris on 17 June 1242, in response to the Disputation of Paris of 1240. From that time on, similar destruction of rabbinic texts was carried out intermittently. On 9 September 1533 vast numbers of rabbinic texts were destroyed in Rome; this was followed by similar attacks throughout northern Italy. In the 18th century thousands of copies of the Talmud were burned in Poland after a disputation in 1757. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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