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37. 1453 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - France
This doesn't seem to be a real expulsion, but an artefact of the English having control of Gascony (Bordeaux) until 1453, at which point the prevailing French laws on Jews applied.
38. 1453 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Breslau
In modern day Wroclaw, 41 Jews were burnt at the stake and the rest expelled for desecrating the Host (with fanciful allegations), according to John Capistrano, a foreign friar who had a record of spreading anti-semitism.
39. 1454 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Wurzburg
I can't find anything about this at all.
40. 1462 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mainz
41. 1483 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mainz
Note that these are the third and fourth times Mainz is appearing on this list, after 1438 and 1012, so it is a good example of triple (or even quadruple) counting.
42. 1484 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Warsaw
I cannot find anything about this.
43. 1485 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Vincenza (Italy)
This was due to the blood libel and a friar, Bernardino da Feltre, who went around Northern Italy trying to get Jews expelled.
44. 1492 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spain
This was Ferdinand and Isabella's (in)famous expulsion. Jews were allowed to convert if they didn't want to be expelled. Besides anti-semitism, this was partly motivated by economic reasons - seizing their property.
45. 1492 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Italy
I cannot find anything about this. Indeed, quite a few Italian states welcomed Jews who had been expelled from Spain.
46. 1495 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lithuania
Alexander Jagiellon expelled them due to "the international situation of that time, the circumstances surrounding the economic activities of financially competent Jews, and the financial status of the Grand Duke’s estate". Yet, they were allowed back in only 8 years later in 1503, so it wasn't much of an expulsion.
47. 1496 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Naples
Some sources say that this was when Naples was conquered by Spain in 1495 (and Malamat and Tadmor's A History of the Jewish People adds that it was only implemented in 1510). Neapolitan history during the Italian Wars is complicated, but regardless this is another example of double counting since Spain had already expelled them.
48. 1496 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Portugal
This is conventionally believed to be because Manuel I wanted to marry the eldest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. And they were given a choice to convert.
49. 1498 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nuremberg
In the years leading up to the expulsion there had been much anti-semitic sentiment fanned. There were also claims that they were involved in crime.
50. 1498 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Navarre
As with Portugal, King Johan and Queen Catalina expelled the Jews due to Spanish influence, partly to get their help to ward off France. Again as with Portugal and Spain, they could convert - and most did (because they had no way out, as they were not allowed in Spain). Jewish property was also seized. This didn't stop Navarre being taken over by Spain, unfortunately.
51. 1510 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brandenberg
This was due again to allegations of desecrating the Host but was not strictly enforced.
52. 1510 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Prussia
The Duchy of Prussia was only created in 1525 from the territory of the Teutonic Knights, and the area was later known as Brandenburg-Prussia, so this is double counting with the 1510 Brandenburg expulsion. In any event I can't find any records of Jewish expulsion from Monastic Prussia in 1510.
53. 1514 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Strasbourg
I can't find anything about this. In the notes to Chava Fraenkel-Goldschmidt's edition of The Historical Writings of Joseph of Rosheim: Leader of Jewry in Early Modern Germany, she notes that "At the close of 1515, William, bishop of Strasbourg, received a charter from the Emperor authorizing both him and the Lords of Andlau and their favourites to expel the Jews from a number of specified villages, including Mittelbergheim. This apparently is what R. Joseph was referring to in section 7 of the Chronicle (for 1514/ 15): “. . . and the Bishop was with them in their plan to chive us out of the land”. He states there that the Bishop and the Lords of Andlau cancelled their expulsion plan, and from the tenor of his words it seems that at that time there was no expulsion from his town. Nevertheless, it is possible that the expulsion threat was one of the reasons for R. Joseph’s change of abode."
54. 1515 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Genoa
Genoa was occupied by the French during this time, so it makes most sense for this to be classified as double counting. The Jewish Virtual Library says they were expelled in 1515 but allowed back in a year later. The Jews in Genoa: 507-1681 by Urbani et al on the other hand reports that "In 1516, however, Ottaviano Fregoso, governor of the city under the French dominion, expelled all of the few Jews living in Genoa, even though a few documents seem to prove the contrary.” Thus Joseph"
55. 1519 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Regensburg
This was due to the blood libel.
56. 1533 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Naples
57. 1541 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Naples
Even ignoring how Naples supposedly already expelled them in 1496, the 1541 expulsion here was just the implementation of the 1533 expulsion, and Naples was under Spain all this time.
58. 1542 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Prague & Bohemia
At this time, Bohemia was ruled by Ferdinand I (who had been reared in Spain) in the name of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, so this is arguably double counting with Spain. Since this came 23 years after Regensburg in 1519 (the last entry from the Holy Roman Empire, I will generously count this as a separate item).
59. 1550 -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Genoa
Coming only 35 years after the listing for Genoa in 1515, this is definitely a double (or triple) count.
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