Museum Judengasse

This guide to Museum Judengasse in Frankfurt returns to the morning of August 22, 1614, when a guild leader named Vincenz Fettmilch led a mob of indebted bakers, tailors, and laborers into this lane, where for a century and a half moneylending had been nearly the only trade open to the city's roughly three thousand Jewish residents. It follows what the crowd demanded from the council, and how the emperor's response ended the affair. Best heard walking slowly along the excavated stone foundations underfoot.