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What Languages Did Jews Speak in Medieval England?
In twelfth-century England, Jewish communities lived in a world of many languages: Hebrew for prayer and scholarship, Anglo-Norman French for daily life and business, early Yiddish among German-origin Jews, and Middle English among their neighbours. Here’s how that multilingual world shaped the Jewish characters in Lady of the Castle.