There was such a large population of Jews in eastern europe going into like the 19th and 20th century. This came from centuries earlier a people migrating there Wasn't it because of a Jewish mistress? Yes. For the christian population the plague struck the church of it very hard clergymen were contracting the plague. While they were tending to the sick and the dying and giving their last rights They were contracting the plague which then led to a severe shortage of priests. These new people in the clergy were very oftentimes hastily trained and had no Understanding of what it was that they were talking about. Yep. So you had corruption with the church People who were literally did not know what