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Early in his reign, Edward,perhaps acting from religious conviction,
在統治的早期 愛德華 或許是根據教會的裁定
outlawed money lending, and so putting most of England's Jews out of business.
禁止了資金借貸 導致大部分英格蘭的猶太人破產
He then forced them to wear yellow felt badges of identification.
隨后他強迫猶太人佩戴黃色毛氈徽章以標識身份
And so be recognised as the sub-species of humanity.He undoubtedly believed they were.
猶太人被界定為下等民族 愛德華對這一點確信無疑
A year after his first Welsh invasion,
在他入侵威爾士一年之后
Edward arrested all the heads of the Jewish households and hanged nearly 300 in the tower.
愛德華抓捕了所有猶太家庭的戶主 并在倫敦塔上吊死了其中將近300人
Not satisfied with this,he expelled the entire community,perhaps 3,000 people in 1290,
他對此并不滿足 在1290年 他將整個猶太族群 大約3000人 逐出了國境
an act so overwhelmingly popular,especially with the Church that it awarded him a huge tax grant.
此舉獲得了廣泛的支持 特別是教會 獎賞了他豐厚的稅務補貼
So it's Edward's England which became the first country to perform a little act of ethnic cleansing on its Jews,
愛德華統治的英格蘭可謂 對猶太人進行種族清洗的始作俑者
the violent uprooting of communities in York, Lincoln and London.
在約克郡 林肯郡和倫敦 猶太族群被暴力地連根鏟除
It was not plain sailing for the Jews aboard one deportation boat in the Thames.
猶太人沿著泰晤士河的放逐之旅 并非風平浪靜
At Queenborough,the captain encouraged his Jewish passengers
在昆伯勒 船長誘騙那些猶太乘客
to stretch their legs as the ship beached on the receding tide.
在船因退潮擱淺的時候 下船去活動筋骨
As it returned, he barred them from getting back aboard,
當潮水襲來時 船長卻禁止他們上船
challenging them to call on their god to part the waves as he had with the red sea.
并要求他們祈禱 讓他們的主劈開波浪 就如傳說中劈開紅海那般
But there was no miracle this time.They all drowned.
但是這次神跡沒有顯靈 他們全部溺水而亡
