{"id":95507,"date":"2022-05-21T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95507"},"modified":"2022-05-21T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T07:59:42","slug":"31-05-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95507","title":{"rendered":"Apology, 800 years on, for laws that expelled Jews from England"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Apology, 800 years on, for laws that expelled Jews from England<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Harriet Sherwood<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Church service to mark eight centuries since Synod of Oxford brings together chief rabbi, senior Anglicans and Roman Catholic bishop<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

.Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis will attend service in Christ Church cathedral. Photograph: David Hartley\/Rex<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Church of England is to apologise for its \u201cshameful actions\u201d in passing anti-Jewish laws 800 years ago that paved the way for the expulsion of Jews from England.<\/span><\/p>\n

A special service at Christ Church cathedral in\u00a0Oxford<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, marking the 800th anniversary of the Synod of Oxford, will be attended by Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi, with representatives of the archbishop of Canterbury and a Roman Catholic bishop.<\/span><\/p>\n

The synod passed laws forbidding social interactions between Jews and Christians, forcing Jews to wear identifying badges, imposing church tithes on them and banning them from certain professions. They were also forbidden from building new synagogues.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the late 13th century, further measures forbade Jews from owning land and passing on inheritance to their children. Hundreds were arrested, hanged or imprisoned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, all the Jews in England \u2013 3,000 or so \u2013 were expelled under an edict in 1290 by King Edward I. They were not permitted to return for more than 360 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Church of England was not created until the 1530s, when Henry VIII split from the pope. Nevertheless, it was now right for Christians to repent of their \u201cshameful actions\u201d and to \u201creframe positively\u201d relations with the Jewish community, said Jonathan Chaffey, archdeacon of Oxford. The Roman Catholic church was \u201cfully in accord\u201d with the apology, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The move follows a 2019 document produced by the Church of England which said Christian attitudes towards Judaism over centuries had provided a \u201cfertile seed-bed for murderous antisemitism\u201d. Anglicans and other Christians must not only repent for the \u201csins of the past\u201d but actively challenge anti-Jewish attitudes and stereotypes, said\u00a0the document<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It acknowledged that cathedrals in Norwich and Lincoln were associated with the spread of the \u201cblood libel\u201d in the late Middle Ages, when Jewish communities were falsely accused of abducting and killing Christian children.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the church\u2019s effort to take responsibility for its part in Jewish persecution was blunted by stinging criticism by the chief rabbi of the continued \u201cspecific targeting\u201d of Jews for conversion to\u00a0Christianity<\/a>. Some Christians saw Jews as \u201cquarry to be pursued and converted\u201d, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The document went no further than urging Christians to \u201cthink carefully\u201d about evangelising their Jewish neighbours, and saying Christians should be \u201csensitive to Jewish fears\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony Kushner, professor of Jewish\/non-Jewish relations at Southampton University, said: \u201cThis is the hardest step for the church. Accepting that blood libels, massacres and expulsions were wrong is straightforward … accepting that Jews have a validity of religion is more challenging.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The apology over the Synod of Oxford reflected \u201cconcerns over\u00a0contemporary antisemitism<\/a>\u201d and was part of a wider reassessment of ideas and heritage, including slavery, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe C of E didn\u2019t exist [at the time of the Synod of Oxford] so it is apologising for things that it wasn\u2019t responsible for. But if it regards itself as the leading voice of Christianity in Britain today, then the apology has some merit in recognising injustices that were done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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