London: the 13th-century Jewry revisited*

It is more than a century since Joseph Jacobs presented his paper ‘The London Jewry, 1290’ to the great Anglo-Jewish exhibition of 1887.((J. Jacobs, ‘The London Jewry, 1290′ in Papers read at the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibi? tion, Royal Albert Hall, London, 1887 (Publications of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, I, 1888) 20-52; reprinted in J. Jacobs, Jewish Ideals and other essays (1896).)) His description formed the basis for his essay on London in the Jewish Encyclopedia, in the early 1900s, and for Elkan Nathan Adler’s London volume in the Jewish Communities series, published in Philadelphia in the 1930s. Both reproduced his plan of Jewish property without alteration. Since Jacobs’ time there have been few contributions to our knowledge of London’s medieval Jewry. The most notable, all published by the Society, are Canon Stokes’s short account of the London magnate family of the Eveskes or Cohens included in his Studies in Anglo-Jewish

Written by

Joe Hillaby

Published in

Volume 32

1990

Other articles within the volume

• Further on the Curiel family in 16th-century Portugal
• Class, ethnicity and politics in the Jewish East End, 191 8-1939
• The struggle to establish the London Jewish Hospital: Lord Rothschild versus the barber*
• Hatikvah – Imber, his poem and a national anthem*
• Jenkinson and Schechter at Cambridge: an expanded and updated assessment*
• The importance of being editor: The Jewish Chronicle, 1841-1991*
• From Poland to Paddington: the early history of the Spielmann family, 1828-1948*
• The Jews of Norfolk and Suffolk before 1840*
• London: the 13th-century Jewry revisited*
• The Jewish entries from the Patent Rolls, 1272-1292
• The Jews of Medieval Cambridge
• Publications by Vivian David Lipman CVO, DPhil, FSA, FRHistS (i921-1990)
• Asher Lewis Shane (1911—1991)
• In Memoriam Sir Alan Mocatta OBE (i 907-1990)
• Preface