Mazal Tov

Bernie and Dianne Adler, who met at an Israeli folk-dancing class, become the first Jews to get married in Lincoln since the Jews were expelled from England in 1290.

“The last recorded Jewish wedding in Lincoln took place on the site where Jews’ Court now stands [and where the Adlers got married] in 1275, between Judith, daughter of Bellasez, and Aaron, the son of Benjamin of Lincoln. A document in Westminster Abbey notes that Judith married Aaron “for a dowry of 20 marks stirling and the 24 books of the bible properly provided with punctuation and the masora (the critical notes made on manuscripts of the Hebrew scriptures) and written upon calf skin”.”

The city is, of course, famous for the ‘ritual murder’ libel that followed the discovery of the body of a young boy named Hugh in a cesspit in 1255, resulting in the deaths of 19 Jews.