How is that relevant to a Jewish view of medicine?
Based on a lecture by Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD
While Jews were banned from England for centuries after 1290, some of the most consequential Jewish interactions with the Crown occurred in those years — and came about through physicians. From royal sickness to high diplomacy and questions of organ donations, the intersection of monarchs and Jewish medicos has generated some fascinating chapters.
Like London buses, about which it’s said that you wait ages for one, and then three turn up at once, England’s history of Jewish medical men begins with not just one Jew, but with ten of them.
For hundreds of years after King Edward I expelled the country’s Jewish community in 1290, Jews weren’t officially allowed to enter England, but in the early 15th century an exception was made.
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