According the Old Testament, Pharaoh finally allowed the Hebrews to leave Egypt after the Tenth Plague: Death of all Firstborn Egyptians.
their soul.
trade and commerce stopped during Black Death. People did not leave their houses as well.
It made way for the new generation! Except for that... Nothing, it was a horrible disease that destroyed lives and left society in tatters... But it brought us here!...... At the cost of many thousands dying
Mainly, they were able to leave town when the Plague struck and go far enough away to avoid exposure.
The tenth plague was the death of the firstborn, where God struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon and even the firstborn of all the livestock. This plague finally convinced Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave Egypt.
A plaque, in Weymouth, notes that the "Black Death" entered England through this southern port. When the plague reached large proportions, ports were closed. This brought severe sufering to the people. People couldn't leave to another country and they couldn't receive goods from another country. Transportation in those days went almost non existing. The Messina port in Italy was the first port to close. This port was a central port in transpotartion. I posted a documentary about the plague in the related links box below.
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They were blamed for the plague.In the late Middle Ages not many Jews left Europe altogether. However, many migrated, mainly from western Europe to Poland and other parts of eastern Europe, because they were already persecuted by the Christian majority. When the Black Death broke out all over western Europe, the Church, looking for a scapegoat, blamed it on the Jewish population. Jews were rounded up and tortured until they "confessed" to poisoning the water supplies and causing the Plague. In some places hysteria caused people to beat to death any Jewish person they came upon in the streets. It became so bad that many Jews began a mass exodus from the Plague infested areas - mainly to Poland, which was not affected by the plague. In Spain Jews were placed under intense pressure to convert to Christianity, and in 1492 the Jews still in Spain were forced to leave the country and go to North Africa and some other areas.
They wanted to leave Europe for a better life and to go away from religious
Igor Stravinsky had to leave Europe because of World War II.
They left the city of Ramses (Exodus 12).