Originally posted by aldra
I've read they were caught on multiple occasions throwing the plague-dead into wells
from memory, the book i mentioned stated that multiple jews were physically caught as well as additional jew tortured and admitted to doing so.
a detail i remember was one particular jew rabbi had a pouch/purse/cloth-type container with unknown/unidentifiable bead/berry items that he was throwing into a well. that is the only fact...after that the book said he was 'enthusiastically interrogated' and claimed to have been, in fact, poisoning the well.
there is historic examples of jews doing this throughout ancient history. one example that sticks out is the zealots...a subset called the 'sicarri'...wanted to fight the romans and they went around and poisoned the wells (amongst many other atrocities) of any jew who wouldnt side with them with the intent to force them to.