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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...