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February 20, 2018

Oxford’s Jewish Treasures and the Story of the Jews of Medieval England

The Bodleian Bowl.

Discovered in the city of Norfolk in what had once been a moat, and donated to Oxford in 1755, the so-called Bodleian Bowl bears a Hebrew inscription that puzzled British Hebraists for centuries. Rebecca Abrams explains what is now known about this remarkable artifact, and offers a brief history of the Jews of England in the Middle Ages:

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February 20, 2018

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