On this day in 1290 Edward I issued the Edict of Expulsion of all Jews from England; the deadline for leaving was November 1 of the same year. It would not be undone until the middle of the seventeenth century. Edward said he was acting to protect the Christian (Catholic) community from the nefarious influence of the Jewish community as he endorsed the blood libel cult of (Little Saint) Hugh of Lincoln, all following Henry III’s 1253 Statute of Jewry.
Then, on this day in 1925 a former Austrian army corporal and failed artist published a memoir laced with the hate that would embroil the world in a conflict that directly killed millions and reordered the international order.
Sometimes history requires that we hang our heads and reflect.
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