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People had many different ideas as to what caused the Black Death e.g bad smells, people's sins e.t.c Sadly, the Jews were also believed to be the cause in some parts of Europe. And so the plague awakened an old antisemitic prejudice in people looking for a scapegoat to blame the plague on (the Jews).

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