Massacre of יהודים YEHUDIM during the Rintfleisch persecutions.

The complete surviving applicable register is presented from Siegmund Salfeld’s 1898 edition of the Nürnberger Memorbuch. Each עברית IVRIT passage is followed by a TJD English translation checked against the facsimile and Salfeld’s German rendering. This is a normalized reading transcription: printed wrapping, pointing and note numbers are omitted; abbreviation punctuation is normalized. Names, order, unnamed relatives and textual gaps are retained. Brackets in the original reproduce editorial restorations; English explanatory brackets are TJD’s. Medieval vernacular names sometimes admit more than one reading. R. preserves an honorific without assuming rabbinic ordination; Mistress renders the respectful title for women.

ᴏʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟ:

הרוגי נוימרקט אוי לירח אב נח לפרט:

החבר ר׳ משה הלוי ואשתו מרת בונא וניניו הנערים. ר׳ יהוסף בר אשר ואשתו מרת מינא וג׳ בניו. ר׳ גוטליף ואשתו. ר׳ יחיאל הכהן ואשתו חנה וג׳ בניו. ר׳ אליעזר הכהן ואשתו. מרת היצלין הזקינה. ר׳ יחיאל הכהן ואשתו מרת גוטלין ובנו. מרת יכלין בת ר׳ יחיאל הכהן. מרת גוטלין בת ר׳ שמואל הלוי. מרת ציפורה ובתה. מרת גוטלין ובתה אדלהויט ובתה טרוטלין. מרת גוטא הזקינה ובנה ר׳ משה בר אלעזר ואשתו וג׳ בניו. ר׳ יצחק בר ירחמיאל ואשתו מרת ציפורה וד׳ בניו. מרת טיליא ובנה ר׳ ליבריך ואשתו מרת חנה ובנו. מרת ציפורה בת ר׳ קלונימוס ובנה אליקים הלוי ובנה אברהם הלוי. מרת אוגייא ובתה חנה הבתולה ויחיאל וגומפרכט ואליעזר ואהרן הלוים הנערים. מרת ריכנצה וב׳ בנותיה. ר׳ יעקב ..... ואשתו מרת שלווידא וב׳ בניו. מרת טרוטלא:³

ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:

Those killed at Neumarkt, “woe” [17] in the month of Av, [50]58 in the abbreviated reckoning:

The scholar R. Moses the Levite, his wife Mistress Bona and his grandsons, the boys. R. Joseph son of Asher, his wife Mistress Minna and his three children. R. Gottlieb and his wife. R. Jehiel the priest, his wife Hannah and his three children. R. Eliezer the priest and his wife. Mistress Hizlin the elder. R. Jehiel the priest, his wife Mistress Gutlin and his son. Mistress Jachlin, daughter of R. Jehiel the priest. Mistress Gutlin, daughter of R. Samuel the Levite. Mistress Zipporah and her daughter. Mistress Gutlin, her daughter Adelheit and her daughter Trutlin. Mistress Guta the elder and her son R. Moses son of Eleazar, his wife and his three children. R. Isaac son of Jerahmeel, his wife Mistress Zipporah and his four children. Mistress Tilia and her son R. Librich, his wife Mistress Hannah and his son. Mistress Zipporah, daughter of R. Kalonymos, her son Eliakim the Levite and her son Abraham the Levite. Mistress Ogia and her daughter Hannah, the unmarried young woman, and the boys Jehiel, Gumprecht, Eliezer and Aaron, the Levites. Mistress Richenza and her two daughters. R. Jacob [a gap where four or five names were cut away], his wife Mistress Salveda and his two children. Mistress Trutela.⁴

The surviving text includes Moses the Levite and his grandsons, three generations of women in the Gutlin–Adelheit–Trutlin sequence, and Richenza with her two daughters. These relationships document the lives attacked even where a modern total differs. The municipal history locates the 1298 persecution at Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz.⁵ That later account describes Christians trying to shelter יהודים YEHUDIM and a burning in the בית כנסת BEIT KʾNESET (synagogue); the Hebrew list itself supplies neither that narrative nor a secure complete total. The translation therefore keeps that later narrative distinct from the memorial’s words.

Salfeld identifies the source of one gap:

ᴏʀɪɢɪɴᴀʟ:

Die hier fehlenden 4–5 Namen sind beim Einbinden des Manuscripts fortgeschnitten.⁶

ᴛʀᴀɴꜱʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:

The four or five names missing here were cut away during the binding of the manuscript.⁷

The register marks the loss after Jacob. Salfeld also notes that the absence of a closing punctuation mark could indicate the loss of a further line. Complete here means the complete surviving applicable entry, with its losses visible; it cannot mean that every original victim name has survived.⁸

The Hebrew heading gives אוי לירח אב נח לפרט. Salfeld’s 1898 edition reads אוי as woe and explains that its letters also have the value 17. He prints Sunday, 27 July 1298. The Hebrew heading supplies 17 Av 5058; the weekday and civil date are Salfeld’s reading, not words in the heading.⁹

The Nuremberg Memorbuch was begun in 1296, close to the 1298 killings, and its martyrology remembers victims of persecutions through 1349. This supports the date assigned by the memorial, not a separate account fixing the day of every death. Salfeld’s 27 July is Julian dating, equivalent to 3 August in the Gregorian calendar. A page on Neumarkt’s palace says it burned during a pogrom on 12 July, but cites no source for that day, so it does not establish a competing date for this massacre.¹⁰]¹¹] Friedrich Lotter’s overview places a regional wave between 18 July and 1 August, but its chronology draws on Salfeld rather than an independent witness.¹²

• What does a complete presentation owe to people whose names were physically cut away?
• Why must a later narrative of attempted shelter remain distinct from what the memorial list itself says?