Jewish people persecuted in Black Death (17 jan 1825 ano – 1 jan 1351 ano)

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During the 14th century, the Black Death killed 25 million people in Europe, and Jews received the blame and accused of poisoning wells. Jews were made the scapegoat for the plague, and as a result, no fewer than 235 Jewish communities faced widespread persecution in an attempt by European Christians to contain the plague.

FMF gene mutations have been linked with plague immunity and are most common in people of Arab, Armenian, Jewish, or Turkish ancestry. FMF causes abdominal pain and fevers that last 12 to 72 hours, but it also affects the pyrin gene, which activates the cell death enzyme by keeping it active at all times. It is hypothesized that FMF caused 14th-century Jews to survive the plague at a greater rate, leading to false accusations that they spread the plague.


Glatter, K. A., & Finkelman, P. (2021). History of the Plague: An Ancient Pandemic for the Age of COVID-19. The American journal of medicine, 134(2), 176–181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.08.019

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