Being a Jew is my only sin. I can’t think of anything else then taking my family to a safe place. Everyone here is dying or being killed. I have enough money to leave Venice and go to England before the “doctors” come and kill us or before we die from this deadly plague. I’m a doctor and I have never seen nothing like this. The plague is spreading fast and there is no medicine that can cure anyone. The Black Death is affecting almost everyone. People are accusing us, the Jews, of poisoning the water that is believed to be causing the Black Death. All the Jews are going to be killed starting tomorrow because the people believe that if they kill all Jews the plague will end. If we don’t leave we will die. The Jews are not permitted to leave the
