The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales: A Genetic and Genealogical History

by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates

This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Contrary to popular history, the Jewish population was not expelled from England in 1290, but rather adopted the public face of Christianity, while continuing to practice Judaism in secret. Crypto-Jews...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786476842
• ISBN13: 9780786476848
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher