STAMFORD

STAMFORD
STAMFORD, town in Lincolnshire in northeastern England. In 1190 the local Jews were attacked by the crusaders assembled there at the Lent fair and those unable to find shelter in the royal castle were massacred. The community later reestablished itself and in the 13th century there was an archa . In 1222 members of the community were arrested on a charge of mocking Christianity, possibly the result of a misunderstanding of a Purim masquerade. No Jewish community has been established in modern times. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Roth, England, index; Rigg-Jenkinson, Exchequer, index. (Cecil Roth)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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