chronicled this strange bit of Jewish history in her article “The Wandering Hat: Iterations of the Medieval Jewish Pointed Cap.” At first, the pointed cap was worn by European Jews as a hat ...

By means of internal comparisons Epstein proves that the hat, only enforced as a punitive ... Considering the fact that “in medieval Jewish visual culture there were few if any iconographic ...

It wasn’t a time for celebrations, particularly for Jewish ... and towns of medieval Europe abounded, from yellow wheels in France to blue stripes in Sicily to yellow pointed hats in Germany ...

A stone-lined latrine was one of the few surviving remnants of a medieval hall in Oxford's Jewish quarter. Dunne et al. / Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Archaeologists in England have ...

The bronze cauldron dates to the 13th Century and has an inscription in Hebrew which suggests a connection to Colchester A 13th Century bronze bowl linked to Colchester's medieval Jewish community ...

Located in the medieval historic centre of Erfurt, the capital city of Thuringia, the property comprises three monuments: the Old Synagogue, the Mikveh, and the Stone House. They illustrate the life ...

The synagogue was at the heart of Jewish medieval life in the city at a time when York was one of the most important Jewish centres in the country. Dr Duncan Marks of the Civic Trust said ...