Expulsions & Burnings: the 13th Century
History Series / Part 2

Forced out of France by the Second Crusade, the students of the Baalei Tosfos fled to England, only to be followed by the same wave of Christian fanaticism and anti-Semitism. Rabbi Wein relates the terrible calamities that fell the Jews of medieval England, from the blood libel at Norwich to the Third Crusade of Richard the Lion-Hearted. Yet in spite of all the violence, it was the burning of the Talmud that forced the Jews out of England and into yet another land of exile.

• the first recorded blood libel in history
• the London pogrom
• the great strategic blunder that ended the Third Crusade
• the dirty history of Oxford University Library's Jewish collection