"This splendid book offers an engrossing and profoundly learned account of the place of Jews in English society. Its cogent and subtle exploration of the interplay between creative social dynamics and the destructiveness of predatory government have relevance far beyond its thirteenth-century setting."

R. I. Moore, author of The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Authority and Deviance in Western Eur

"There is no comparable book to this one. England’s Jews is a compelling and impressive account of Jews’ changing relationship to the Crown in thirteenth-century England, and John Tolan is a well-respected historian and an excellent storyteller."

Robert Stacey, University of Washington

"England’s Jews is a welcome contribution to the study of the history of England’s Jews. By examining documentation generated by church and crown, John Tolan shows how a small group of subjects occupied the bureaucratic efforts and the religious imagination of the country's leaders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries."

Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London

"John Tolan, in an account as scholarly as it is accessible, casts entirely new light on the predicament of England’s Jews in the century before their expulsion in 1290. His book is essential reading for all those interested in the history of medieval Jewry."

David Carpenter, King’s College London