{"id":106292,"date":"2023-08-20T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=106292"},"modified":"2023-08-13T08:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T06:43:29","slug":"20-00-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=106292","title":{"rendered":"British city of York, site of a medieval pogrom, gets its first rabbi in 800 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>British city of York, site of a medieval pogrom, gets its first rabbi in 800 years<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

JACKIE HAJDENBERG <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Clifford’s Tower, the site of the massacre of the Jews of York took place in 1190. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For the first time in 800 years, the British city of York, whose Jewish population was decimated in a medieval pogrom, will be home to a rabbi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi Elisheva Salamo arrived in York from California last week after decades of pulpit work in the United States, Switzerland and South Africa. She will take a part-time pulpit at the York Liberal Jewish Community, which is affiliated with a denomination akin to the American Reform movement. The congregation was founded in 2014 and now has about 100 members.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her hiring is a milestone for York, a city in northern England whose medieval Jewish community was\u00a0wiped out in a pogrom in March 1190<\/a>, on the Shabbat before Passover. Seeking protection from antisemitic rioters who intended to either forcibly convert the Jews to Christianity or kill them, York\u2019s Jews sought refuge in a tower in the king\u2019s castle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Realizing they would not make it out of the tower alive as troops amassed outside, they chose to kill themselves rather than convert \u2014 a choice\u00a0also made by other European Jewish communities<\/a>\u00a0facing antisemitic armies during the Crusades. Approximately 150 people are estimated to have died in the York pogrom. A century later, the Jews were\u00a0expelled from England entirely;<\/a>\u00a0they\u00a0were permitted to return only in 1656.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHelping to rebuild what was once one of England\u2019s most vibrant Jewish communities is an honor and a privilege,\u201d Salamo told\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

York is not the only British town with a history of medieval antisemitism where Jewish life is being reestablished. The British town of Norwich, where the first known instance of the antisemitic blood libel took place in 1144, and which was the site of another 1190 pogrom,\u00a0may become home to a Jewish heritage center<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Salamo was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and attended Reed College and Yale University, where she studied biology and cellular and molecular biology. According to her website, she is also an experienced equestrian.<\/span><\/p>\n

She will be joining a community that has been led by volunteers in the nearly 10 years since it was founded. Salamo\u2019s first formal role will be to lead High Holiday services in September. The community hopes to fundraise in order to hire her full time, according to the\u00a0Jewish Chronicle<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith York\u2019s unique history, this is a very significant moment not just for local Jews but nationally and internationally,\u201d Ben Rich, co-founder of the York Liberal Jewish Community, told the Jewish Chronicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI hope that the whole Jewish community and its allies across the globe will want to help us on the next step of this incredible journey to bring Judaism back to this ancient and most beautiful of cities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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