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a detail from the Friese Chronicles showing the 1349 massacre of Erfurt Jews in Germany, who were blamed for the Black Death http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/health/01plague.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/health/01plague.html>