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The Black Death: An Account of the Deadly Pestilence of the Fourteenth Century. Humboldt Library of Popular Science Literature, no. 67. Translated for the Sydenham Society of London by B. G. Babington ...

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Singerman ID#supp2269

Hecker, Justus Friedrich Carl. The Black Death: An Account of the Deadly Pestilence of the Fourteenth Century. Humboldt Library of Popular Science Literature, no. 67. Translated for the Sydenham Society of London by B. G. Babington ... New York: J. Fitzgerald, 1885. 47 p.

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Recounts the accusations leveled against the Jews for the bubonic plague epidemic by poisoning of water wells and food, also the resulting persecutions and massacres of Jews (pp. 26-30, 44-47).