` (UTC)  ===Jewish massacre=== I looked at some scholarship regarding this tragic event.  I'll paste it below and give the URL of one authoritative website (an .edu).  After extensive research though, my observation is that this tragic event, although very real, had nothing to do with Valentine's day per se and as such does not belong in this article on Valentine's Day.  It deserves the light of day and belongs perhaps in the 1342 events page, but the massacre had nothing to do with the celebration of Valentine's Day and I think it should be moved from an article that is supposed to be about Valentine's Day.  Secondly, the paragraph needs some accuracy.  The full story is that ``the authorities [of Stroudsbourg], who attempted to save the Jews, were overthrown by a fear-stricken mob led by the butchers' and tanners' guilds and by the nobles who were determined to do away with the Jews who were their economic competitors and to whom they were indebted for loans. Thus in this city, at least, it was not merely religious bigotry and fear of the plague, but economic resentment that fired the craftsmen and the nobles to their work of extermination.`` The current wiki paragraph just makes a blanket accusation against ``Christians`` and in light of the amplified details found at the website below, I sincerely believe the current paragraph should be moved and redacted once it winds up in the 1342 article which is where I would like to put it.  Please fell free to comment if you believe otherwise. Thanks!   Here's the scholarship from URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.html ``The second account describes the Black Death in general and treats specifically of the destruction of the Jewish community in Strasbourg. In this city the authorities, who attempted to save the Jews, were overthrown by a fear-stricken mob led by the butchers' and tanners' guilds and by the nobles who were determined to do away with the Jews who were their economic competitors and to whom they were indebted for loans. Thus in this city, at least, it was not merely religious bigotry and fear of the plague, but economic resentment that fired the craftsmen and the nobles to their work of extermination. Those people of Strasbourg, who had thus far escaped the plague and who thought that by killing off the Jews they would insure themselves against it in the future, were doomed to disappointment, for the pest soon struck the city and, it is said, took a toll of sixteen thousand lives.``  17:58, 14 February 2007`