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Meir b. Elijah of Norwich and the Margins of Memory
- Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
- Purdue University Press
- Volume 27, Number 4, Summer 2009
- pp. 1-23
- 10.1353/sho.0.0403
- Article
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"Meir b. Elijah of Norwich and the Margins of Memory" is a study of Meir of Norwich's use of acrostics to record his English Jewish identity. In the face of the 1290 Expulsion, which follows upon many episodes of anti-Jewish violence and antipathy, Meir attempts to have his name recorded in perpetuity. This essay details some of those moments of violence in order to give voice to Meir's world and to clarify Meir's desire to be remembered.