Editing Timeline of Jewish history (section)

===14th century===
[[File:Pottery artifacts Synagogue Sopron Hungary.jpg|thumb|Pottery in the museum of the synagogue of Sopron, [[Hungary]], built around 1300.]]
;1300: Rabbi Levi ben Gershom, aka [[Gersonides]]. A 14th-century French Jewish philosopher best known for his ''Sefer Milhamot Adonai'' ("The Book of the Wars of the Lord") as well as for his philosophical commentaries.

;1304–1394: Jews are repeatedly expelled from [[France]] and readmitted, for a price.

;1343: Jews persecuted in Western Europe are invited to [[Poland]] by [[Casimir III of Poland|Casimir the Great]].

;1346–1353: Jews scapegoated as the cause of the growing [[Black Death]]. See also [[Medieval antisemitism#The Black Death|Medieval antisemitism]]

;1348: [[Pope Clement VI]] issued two papal bulls in 1348 (6 July and 26 September), the latter named ''Quamvis Perfidiam'', which condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been "seduced by that liar, the Devil."<ref name=Skolnik1>{{cite book|last1=Skolnik|first1=Fred|last2=Berenbaum|first2=Michael|title=Encyclopaedia Judaica: Ba-Blo|publisher=Granite Hill Publishers|isbn=978-0-02-865931-2|page=733|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKoUAQAAIAAJ|date=2007}}</ref> He urged clergy to take action to protect Jews as he had done.

;1349: Several hundred Jews are publicly burned to death in the [[Strasbourg massacre]].

;1350s: Genetic testing conducted on [[Ashkenazi Jews]] has pointed to a bottleneck in the 1300s in the Ashkenazi Jewish population where it dwindled down to as few as 250–420 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/ashkenazi-jewish-population-has-distinctive-yet-similar-genomes/ |date = 23 September 2014 |title = Ashkenazi Jewish population has distinctive, yet similar genomes |first = Diana |last = Gitig |website = Ars Technica}}</ref>

;1369–70: Civil war in Spain, between brothers [[Peter of Castile]] (Pedro) and [[Henry II of Castile]] (Enrique), leads to the deaths of 38,000 Jews, embroiled in the conflict.<ref>[[Abraham Zacuto]], ''Sefer Yuchasin'', [[Kraków]] 1580 (q.v. [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/11550 ''Sefer Yuchasin''], electronic page 265 (in PDF) (Hebrew).</ref><ref>[[Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph|Gedaliah ibn Jechia]] the Spaniard, ''Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah'', Jerusalem 1962, p. 140 (in Hebrew), who puts the number of Jewish deaths in this conflict at 28,000.</ref>