page_title: Timeline of Jewish history
section_title: 14th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Jewish history / Post-biblical history / 14th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Pottery artifacts on display inside the Synagogue of Sopron, Hungary
context_page_description: This is a timeline of the development of Jews and Judaism. All dates are given according to the Common Era, not the Hebrew calendar.
  See also Jewish history which includes links to country histories.
context_section_description: 1300
  Rabbi Levi ben Gershom, aka Gersonides. A 14th-century French Jewish philosopher best known for his Sefer Milhamot Adonai ("The Book of the Wars of the Lord") as well as for his philosophical commentaries.
  1304–1394
  Jews are repeatedly expelled from France and readmitted, for a price.
  1343
  Jews persecuted in Western Europe are invited to Poland by Casimir the Great.
  1346–1353
  Jews scapegoated as the cause of the growing Black Death. See also Medieval antisemitism
  1348
  Pope Clement VI issued two papal bulls in 1348 (6 July and 26 September), the latter named Quamvis Perfidiam, which condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been "seduced by that liar, the Devil." He urged clergy to take action to protect Jews as he had done.
  1349
  The Strasbourg massacre
  1350s
  Genetic testing conducted on Ashkenazi Jews has pointed to a bottleneck in the 1300s in the Ashkenazi Jewish population where it dwindled down to as few as 250–420 people.
  1369–70
  Civil war in Spain, between brothers Peter of Castile (Pedro) and Henry II of Castile (Enrico), leads to the deaths of 38,000 Jews, embroiled in the conflict.
caption: Pottery in the museum of the synagogue of Sopron, Hungary, built around 1300.
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