Legacy
The event has become a matter of some controversy among Jews. Some embraced it as a heroic last stand of Jewish nationalists who chose death over slavery in their struggle against an aggressive Empire. Others see it as a case of Jewish radicals refusing to compromise and instead reduced the Jewish population by suicide and murder of their families, both prohibited by Rabbinic Judaism.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)