The Prioress' Prologue and Tale

What was the brutality and anti-Semitism in The Prioress?

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The anti-semitism is blantant throughout this tale. The tale concerns the journey of a small boy who was walking along singing. He went through the Jewish ghetto and was assaulted by those living there, who brutally killed the boy, then dumped his remains in excrement(yes...that's doo doo). There's the brutality part of it. The prioress goes on to talk about the fact that the jews there conspired to lie to the mother who came looking for her son. She also refers to them in completely negative terms each time they are mentioned.