Oxford Jewish Tours
סיורים במורשת יהודית של אוקספורד

Oxford has one of the best documented medieval Jewish quarters in the world and the story of the Jews in Oxford is an integral and fascinating part of the history of the Jews of England. Learn about Jewish life in the city before the expulsion of 1290, come up to date with the story of the Jews since the 1655 re-admission and find out about the great Jewish contribution to Oxford University since Jewish students were accepted at the end of the 19th century. Please take a look at the Oxford Jewish Heritage website at www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk

Oxford Jewish Heritage Guided Tours

Two Oxford Jewish Heritage tour guides are available for group bookings of up to 25 people, or for custom tailored individual private tours.
Victoria Bentata Azaz, a registered Oxford Green Badge Guide conducts an excellent two hour walking tour encompassing Oxford’s Jewish heritage from the medieval period right up to the present day. Victoria can be contacted via [email protected] or via www.oxfordcitywalks.co.uk
Pam Manix, has worked as a historian on the medieval Oxford Jewish quarter and conducts a more specific tour of ‘Oxford’s Remarkable Medieval Jewry’- one of the best documented medieval Jewish quarters in the world. The tour begins with a 30-minute talk with maps and images orienting the Jewry within the medieval city of Oxford, before setting out on a walking tour of the Jewry. Pam can be contacted at [email protected] or at [email protected]

Oxford Jewish Heritage Self Guided Tour
From the King’s Jews of the Norman Conquest to the Refugee Scholars of the 1930’s 

Oxford has possibly the most well documented history of any Jewish medieval community in the world. A self-guided walking tour through one thousand years of Oxford Jewish history can be downloaded here. It is designed for best reading when printed on an A3 sheet.

• Find out about the remarkable circumstances which allowed this to be so, and what this unique collection can tell us about a medieval Jewish community and how it functioned. Find out about its characters and how they lived.
• Take a walk around the medieval Jewish Quarter and learn about Jewish life in the city and significant events before the expulsion of 1290.
• Come up to date with the story of the Jewish population since the17th century re-admission and remarkable facts about the Jewish contribution to Oxford University in the 20th century.
• Learn about the innumerable Jews who have contributed to the social, intellectual and cultural life of Oxford over the past centuries. 

​Jewish sites in Oxford include:

• Merton College, where you can find out how a Jewish land transaction contributed to the founding of one of the first Oxford colleges;
• The Botanic Garden - site of the medieval Jewish cemetery;
• St Aldates, formerly Great Jewry;
• The Oxford Castle - medieval tax point and site of the Jews' Mount,
• The location of the first English coffee house in the High Street, which was opened by a Levantine Jew called Jacob.