King Louis IX: saint, crusader, good to Christians, really, really, really mean to Jews. Tomorrow is Tisha b'Av, the ninth of the Jewish month of Av and the saddest day of the Jewish year.

Louis IX presided over a notorious public burning of the Talmud, a Jewish sacred text, and issued an order to expel his Jewish subjects. In its statement, ...

JTA — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis issued an emphatic defense of the city’s statue of King Louis IX, the Missouri city’s namesake, without mentioning his persecution of Jews ...