JewishChronicle1849

jc  The Jewish Chronicle Archive holds copies of all the JCs from

    1841 to the present day.

 

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Documenting Oxford

 

Oxford Jewry

Pam Manix & Silke Schaeper



This article was originally published in: Christ Church Library Newsletter vol. 4, issue 3, Trinity 2008, p. 1-5; ISSN 1756-6797 (print), ISSN 1756-6800 (online) and is reproduced here without illustrations with the kind permission of the authors and Christ Church College.     Click on the link to access a downloadable pdf of the original issue with the illustrations.

From around 1080 until the expulsion order of 1290, Oxford was home to a thriving Jewish community, which had come to England with the Normans from Northern France (Hebrew Tsarfat) A wealth of archival records has enabled historians to draw up detailed maps of properties in the former Jewish quarter and to learn the names and occupations of their owners.

 
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Aerial Views
The Oxford Jewish Heritage Committee is very grateful to Robert Norton, who has taken these aerial pictures of Oxford showing the Oxford Jewish Centre.
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Oxford's Community Publications scanned

Our thanks to the anonymous donor who has made the scanning of these out of print books about the Oxford Community possible.   The chapters are down-loadable individually.

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