The Medieval Massacre of the Jews of York
Speaking with Shadows
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Do You Feel Like There's Any Parallels Between the Middle Ages and the Twenty-First Century?
In 12 90, exactly a century after the events at clifford's tower, when edward the first orders that all the surv in members of the jewish community henceforth must leave england and go off into perpetual exile. Do you feel like there's any parallels between the way tha jewish people were treated in the middle ages and in the twentieth century? And the hollow course, do you feel these two kind of events can be talked about comparatively? Yes, i think this has powerful lessons for the present. How is it commemorated to day? What happened? Until 19 78, i don't think there was anything in the way that the sight was presented, and probably very
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