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April 14, 2021

Archaeologists Find Evidence of Medieval English Jewry’s Adherence to Kosher Laws

Eating herring in Oxford.

From the 11th century until the end of the 13th, England was home to an important Jewish community, which included some rabbis cited in the anthological talmudic commentary known as Tosafot. The first Jews in the British Isles were thought to have come over from France with William the Conqueror; the Jews were expelled en masse in 1295. Cnaan Lipshiz reports on some recently discovered pottery fragments found on the property of Jews living in Oxford:

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