UTC  Jewish massacre I looked at some scholarship regarding this tragic event  Ill paste it below and give the URL of one authoritative website an edu  After extensive research though my observation is that this tragic event although very real had nothing to do with Valentines day per se and as such does not belong in this article on Valentines Day  It deserves the light of day and belongs perhaps in the  events page but the massacre had nothing to do with the celebration of Valentines Day and I think it should be moved from an article that is supposed to be about Valentines Day  Secondly the paragraph needs some accuracy  The full story is that the authorities of Stroudsbourg who attempted to save the Jews were overthrown by a fearstricken mob led by the butchers and tanners guilds and by the nobles who were determined to do away with the Jews who were their economic competitors and to whom they were indebted for loans Thus in this city at least it was not merely religious bigotry and fear of the plague but economic resentment that fired the craftsmen and the nobles to their work of extermination The current wiki paragraph just makes a blanket accusation against Christians and in light of the amplified details found at the website below I sincerely believe the current paragraph should be moved and redacted once it winds up in the  article which is where I would like to put it  Please fell free to comment if you believe otherwise Thanks   Heres the scholarship from URL httpwwwfordhameduhalsalljewishjewsblackdeathhtml The second account describes the Black Death in general and treats specifically of the destruction of the Jewish community in Strasbourg In this city the authorities who attempted to save the Jews were overthrown by a fearstricken mob led by the butchers and tanners guilds and by the nobles who were determined to do away with the Jews who were their economic competitors and to whom they were indebted for loans Thus in this city at least it was not merely religious bigotry and fear of the plague but economic resentment that fired the craftsmen and the nobles to their work of extermination Those people of Strasbourg who had thus far escaped the plague and who thought that by killing off the Jews they would insure themselves against it in the future were doomed to disappointment for the pest soon struck the city and it is said took a toll of sixteen thousand lives    February