Recent News About the Medieval Jewish Cemetery in London

Comment by Dean A. Irwin (University of Lincoln) Newspaper articles published in the past week, suggesting the ‘discovery’ of the medieval Jewish cemetery at London, were met with a mixture of surprise and confusion. Its location is well known (just beyond Cripplegate, with part of the estate next to St. Giles in Cripplegate), and a remarkable set of sources detail the position and expansion of the site. We know more about this cemetery than any other medieval Anglo-Jewish burial ground, wit...