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"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." (German: "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.")—Heinrich Heine, from his play Almansor (1821)

• Hebrew Manuscripts Publicly Burned (1242)
  “At the decree of Pope Gregory IX and King Louis, all copies of the Talmud are confiscated in Paris. Declaring that the reason for the stubbornness of the Jews was their study of the Talmud, the Pope called for an investigation of the Talmud that resulted in its condemnation and burning. Twenty-four cart-loads of Hebrew manuscripts were publicly burned.”

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