Banishment of Jewish people in Britain did take place, but it’s over now

By Letter to the Editor on November 28, 2018.

Re: “Jewish people still in England,” Nov. 26

It was possibly more of an “assumption.” I should have known, I suppose, the old saying that if one breaks “assume” into three syllables, like in ass-u-me … well, what can I say.

I wrongly “assumed” that most folks would know that the Jewish people would eventually all return to the British Isles. I did my research; did you? If you had, you would definitely have read that, of course, almost all the Jewish folks had been banished from England, many years ago. And of course, that banishment, although it caused much trauma amongst the banished, was almost soon forgotten and Jewish folk were slowly allowed to drift back, to continue their enrichment of English society.

I didn’t realize that someone would take the fact that they had “met one or two Jewish folk in England” just recently, was somehow proof that the banishment never took place.

So, I very likely did write it poorly, but no, it was not poorly researched.

Ted Kohlmetz

Medicine Hat

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