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 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. A downloadable pdf is also available with the original 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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