Forced segregation of Jews spreads throughout Europe…
1396 CE to 1539 CE
Forced segregation of Jews spreads throughout Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The ghettos of Frankfurt am Main and the Prague Judenstadt (Germany: “Jew town”) are renowned.
Jews in Poland and Lithuania are numerous enough to constitute a majority of the population in many cities and towns in which they occupy entire quarters.
Life for Jews is difficult and uncertain in the German states, as they continue to be generally excluded from ownership of land and from the guilds that control the skilled trades.
