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Great Jewry stone plaque

Commemorative plaque

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This stone commemorative plaque records: This street known till 1300 as Great Jewry contained many houses of the Jews including the synagogue which lay to the north of Tom Tower 1931
Great Jewry was a significant medieval street in Oxford that housed numerous Jewish residents and their communal buildings, including a synagogue, reflecting the historical presence and importance of the Jewish community in medieval English towns before their expulsion in 1290.

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