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Rowan Dorin

Historian

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Jan 29, 2026
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What are the most thoroughly documented medieval expulsions of Jewish communities and their primary sources?

The most thoroughly documented of Jewish communities are those from , from various French domains (notably 1182 and kingdom-wide actions in 1306 and 1394), and from ; surviving documentation for these...

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in middle age times were jews practicing usury?

Jews did participate in moneylending in medieval Europe, and medieval law and polemic frequently linked Jews with “usury,” helping justify expulsions and violence; scholarship stresses that not all Je...