12 For this passage, see p.112.
13 See pp.61-2. Also Berliner,
Aus dem Leben der deutschen
Juden. The data that follow are taken from the Kolbo,
the
Mahzor Vitry, and other sources cited by Zunz,
Zur Geschichte, pp.167
et seq.14 See p.81.
15 See Epstein,
Die nach Raschi genannten Gebaude in
Worms.16 This is the epoch which marks the arrival of Jews in Great
Britain. They went there, it seems, In the suite of William
the Conqueror (1066) - They always remained in touch with
their co-religionists on the Continent, and were sometimes
called by these "the Jews of the Island." For a while they
enjoyed great prosperity, which, joined to their religious
propaganda, drew upon them the hatred of the clergy.
Massacred in 1190, exploited and utterly ruined in the
thirteenth century, they were finally exiled in 1290.
17 See p.39.
18 Surnamed "Segan Leviya," supposed--doubtless incorrectly--to
have come originally from Vitry in Champagne. He was a very
conscientious pupil of Eliezer the Great. Died about 1070.
19 He is the author of the famous Aramaic poem read at the
Pentecost, beginning with the words
Akdamot Millin. He must not be confounded with his contemporary of the same
name, Meir ben Isaac (of Orleans?), to whom also some
liturgic poems are attributed.
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