Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

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—Urbino, Italy: Paintings by Paolo Uccello on the predella for the altarpiece
of the Communion of the Apostles in the Ducal Palace. In one scene,
a Jewish family stands transfixed as a Christian mob batters down the door
to their house, alerted to a Host desecration by the miraculous flow of blood
through the walls of the house. One of the two Jewish children weeps in
terror, while a younger sibling clings to the mother’s skirts. A subsequent
panel shows the same family, bound together at the stake, as the flames
consume them.
—Vièrge de Valreas, France (d. 1247): Murdered by “The Jews.”
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