Medieval: Љ Hereford

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Robbing the Jews

http://www.wildolive.co.uk/hereford_history.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_the_Jewry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion

The Jewish Community in Hereford (England), up to 1290.

The Expulsion

In 1290, Edward I sent secret orders to the sheriff that all Jews, with their wives, children and chattels, were, on pain of death, to quit the realm by 1 November, the feast of All Saints. The sheriff was to ensure that they suffered no injury, harm, damage or grievance in their departure. The penalty for any Jew who remained behind after that was death.

Paris was the goal of the wealthiest, but in February 1291 Philip the Fair expelled all English Jews from his lands except those profitable to the French crown . It is not known what became of Hereford's Jews.

· The Expulsion was announced on 18th April, which, that year, fell on the 9th of Av, on the Jewish calendar. The 9th of Av is Tisha BaAv, a day of fasting, since it was also the date of the destruction of 1st and 2nd Temples. (see Jewish Feasts or holidays )

http://www.wildolive.co.uk/hereford_history.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_the_Jewry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion

The Location of Hereford’s Jewry

English medieval Jewries were not ghettos.
1 Jewry Lane - centre of the community.
2 Maylord Street
3 Home of Moses -leader of community
4 Bewell Spring -site of mikveh?
5 Bye Street - home of Manasser and house in dowry of daughter of Hamo.
6 Bastion known as the Jew's Chimney
Off South East corner - site of cemetery

Archaeology has not produced much evidence but records can tell us quite a lot.

After the expulsion, Reginald Moniword and William de Pedwardyn bought up Aaron's house, the synagogue and most of the other property in Hereford. The cemetery was incorporated into St. Giles' Hospital. Thus ended the 110-year-old community cherished first by Hamo and his family and later by Aaron. The community was remembered in common usage of place names for six centuries.

http://www.wildolive.co.uk/hereford_history.htm

http://www.wildolive.co.uk/images/Hereford%20Jewry.jpg

Hereford
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol1/pp90-144
secular
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol1/pp90-144#h3-0003

Map of Hereford, 1885 - 1886
https://www.francisfrith.com/hereford

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_ghettos_in_Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Herefordshire

Hereford - History of its Medieval Jewish Community