Two Jews lost their lives in a disastrous fire which broke out in Podrzeczna street in the heart of the Jewish quarter. Sarah Weisfeld, 70, was burned to death, while Moische Sandberg lost his life when he leaped out of the window of a house in flames.
Arsene Darmesteter deciphered the difficult and beautiful elegy, preserved in the Vatican, on the burning of the thirteen Jewish martyrs at Troyes in 1288.
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