Mind-Benders of Jewish History
A Spanish sage who wrote Torah works in medieval London
Driven from Spain by persecution, Avraham ibn Ezra spent his later years wandering — composing his classic works city by city through Italy, France, and finally London, where in 1158 he wrote Yesod Mora and Iggeret HaShabbat. A Sephardi exile was teaching Torah in England more than a century before England expelled its Jews in 1290.
How we know
Ibn Ezra left Spain c. 1140; wrote in London in 1158 (Yesod Mora, Iggeret HaShabbat); d. c. 1167. England's expulsion of the Jews: 1290 — 132 years later.
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