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The Jewish community of Zürich at that time had about 100 members out of a population of 6,000.
This understates the size of Zürich’s Jewish community in 1349. An official City of Zurich publication says the 1349 pogrom killed the majority of about 400 Jews in Zurich, while the ‘around 100’ figure refers to the later, second community after Jews resettled in 1354.
Full reasoning
The sentence places the figure "about 100 members" in the context of the 1349 Zürich massacre, but that figure matches the later second Jewish community, not the community that was attacked in 1349.
An official City of Zurich publication states that in the Zürcher Pogrom of 1349, "the majority of the 400 Zurich Jews were murdered". That directly contradicts the claim that the community at that time had only about 100 members.
A separate history page on the Jews of Zurich distinguishes the two periods: it says Jews resettled in 1354, and that this second Jewish community grew to around 100 people toward the end of the century. So the article appears to have attached a later figure to the earlier 1349 massacre.
Because the page is specifically describing the 1349 event, using about 100 members for the community "at that time" is historically inaccurate.
2 sources
- Zürcher «Mohren»-Fantasien: Eine bau- und begriffsgeschichtliche Auslegeordnung, ca. 1400–2022 (City of Zurich)
"... im Zürcher Pogrom von 1349, während dem die Mehrheit der 400 Zürcher Jüdinnen und Juden ermordet wurden."
- History of the Jews in Zürich
"Not long after, in 1354, Jews resettled in Zurich, with this second Jewish community's numbers rising to around 100 people ... towards the end of the century."