Since
ancient times, Jews had been successful traders and merchants in
the Mediterranean area. In the 15th century, Sephardic Jews were
exiled from the Iberian peninsula, and many settled in Greece (joining
the more ancient group of Romaniot Jews there), and later, in the
17th century, some arrived in England (from where the Jewish community
had been exiled in the 13th century). As a result of the Holocaust
the Jewish population in Greece was all but destroyed, while England
became a refuge for those who could escape.
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you know who introduced coffee drinking to Oxford?
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