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By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin. Were these people anti-Semites?

Or was there something else that caused the hatred? She is next in rank below an abbess. She is seemingly a religious person with religious ideas. Chaucer describes his prioress in his book in two ways.

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She is introduced in his Prologue as an aristocratic, genteel, pious nun, but the story she tells shows her demeaning Jews and stating that Jews drink Christian blood in a Jewish ritual. She describes how Jews were rounded up, treated brutally, and then murdered by the Christian community.

Jews were segregated and assigned to a Jewish ghetto, away from Christian folk. Christians used Jews as a source for borrowing money with interest charged by the Jews, a practice which was hateful to Christ and to his followers. Christians were allowed to go through the ghetto.

He walked through the ghetto to get to school. The serpent Satan which resides in the heart of Jews said to the Jews, will you allow this boy to dishonor our faith, this blasphemy!

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The Jews persuaded a coreligionist to kill the boy. The murderer cut his throat and cast his body into a cesspool. The poor widow searched for her son among the loathsome Jews. She found him. Although dead, he continued to sing about the mother of Christ.

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It was a miracle. The Christians gathered together and beseeched the magistrate for justice. He ordered the binding of all the Jews in the ghetto, and condemned them to die. The community of Christians tore the Jews apart with horses. Then hung their bodies.

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An Abbot asked the child how he could sing after having Cantdrbury throat cut. He replied that Mary came and made it possible. Thus, concluded the prioress, it was like young Hugh of Lincoln who was also slain click accursed Jews. The story raises many questions. Is the story anti-Semitic? Should we understand that the prioress was an anti-Semite? Was Chaucer, the author of the story, an anti-Semite?]