The entire Jewish community was expelled from England. The spark had been ignited in Lincoln a few years earlier, when Jews were blamed for the death of a nine-year-old boy. The story was then exaggerated by word of mouth. Nineteen Jews were tried and executed for it. And a series of vendettas and pogroms would follow for years throughout England. Finally, starting on October 12, 1290, the entire Jewish population (at most 2,000 people) was expelled from England. Hugh was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, and miracles were attributed to him in the centuries that followed. Only in 1955, ten years after the Holocaust, did Lincoln Cathedral repudiate the bloody defamation, placing a plaque acknowledging that the story of Jewish responsibility was fabricated and unsupported by any evidence, and that this had cost the lives of many innocent Jews. Some fake news lasts 700 years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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