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Yorkshire, England — medieval Jewish center

York, a city in Yorkshire in northern England, had a Jewish community in the twelfth century that met a tragic end in March 1190, when, amid anti-Jewish riots, much of the community took refuge in the royal castle keep (Clifford's Tower) and, besieged by a mob, many chose to die rather than be killed or forcibly baptized -- among the worst massacres of medieval Anglo-Jewry.

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