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The Judges and the Jews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Gerald Godfrey
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The Jews have been a source of constant trouble to the judiciary of this country; but, to be fair, only for the last 350 years. Between 1066, when the first Jews to settle here came over from what is now France in the wake of the Norman Conquest, to 1290, when the Jews were expelled, Jewish issues do not appear to have concerned the judges. This discussion of judicial involvement with Jewish issues begins in 1655, when, following Menasseh ben Israel's famous initiative, two senior judges, Chief Justice Glyn and Chief Baron Steel, advised the assembly that had been summoned by Cromwell to consider the matter, that ‘there was no law which forbids the Jews’return into England’.

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 32 , January 2003 , pp. 50 - 61
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Copyright © The Ecclesiastical Law Society 2003

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