During the Plague, most of Europe was Christian, so Jews were looked at with high levels of suspicion and were the easiest scapegoats for the Plague, being religious outcasts. There was a strong belief among the elites in the European society that the Jews wanted to destroy Christendom. Many Christians viewed the Jews as the Antichrist and irresponsible priests spread rumors that the Jews kidnapped and tortured Christian children. The Jews were also represented as the demon’s attendant on Satan and portrayed in drama and pictures as devils. The view of Jews being anti-Christian provoked opposition against them. A large amount of the Christian clergy died during the plague,“Conrad Eubel, basing his calculations almost entirely on German sources,
