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Abraham ben Rubigotsce
Abraham, 12th Century
Abraham ben Rubigotsce was a moneylender in England. His father, Rubigotsce (a Latinate version of “Rabbi Yose”), was a financier and scholar in Norman England, with a wealthy household in Rouen. Upon his father’s death, probably in the 1150s, Abraham took over the leadership of the main London synagogue.
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Land Grant (Lincolnshire, England)
Let all present and future know that I, Simon Lebreth, have granted to Aaron of Lincoln, the Jew, and to Abraham, son of R. Yose, all my land in Wrangle and Leake and Burgh, along with everything…