The main impetus for creation of new Kinnot during the Middle Ages was the Crusades, in which Christian mobs decimated many Jewish communities.
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Several well-known Haredi rabbis, including Rabbi Michael Dov Ber Weissmandl, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov, Rabbi Shimon Schwab, and several others, wrote kinnot about the Shoah, to be said on Tisha b'Av.