Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Trial of the Talmud
- Torah= the books of the old testament,
Hebrew book of faith.
- Talmud= a collection of commentaries on the
Talmud written by Hebrew scholars
- Nicholas Donin
travelled to Rome in
the 1230s and told
the pope that he
used to be a Jew and
the Talmud was full
of attacks on
Christianity.
- In 1239 the Pope wrote to the kings of
Europe asking them to put the Talmud
on trial and investigate it for attacks.
- Louis IX was the
only king to
respond and in
1240 he organised a
trial of the Talmud
in Paris that his
mother, Blanche of
Castile presided
over.
- After the trial Louis and several others decided to burn the Talmud.
- Archbishop of Sens, disagreed and said the Talmud should not be
burnt. He died not long after and this was seen as a punishment for
protecting the Talmud.
- Talmud publically burnt in 1240.
- In 1247, a different Pope wrote to Louis to
remind him that the Jews must be saved,
so to give them their books back. Louis
refused.