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This is the year that English Jews were made to wear yellow badges to identify them as Jews.

It is perhaps inevitable that this yellow badge, which functions as an obvious marker of the status of the Jew as an alien within English society, will bring to mind the yellow stars that Jews of Europe were forced to wear during Nazi occupation in world War II.

The fact that Jews were set apart from the rest of English society with this visible marker sets the stage for their increasing segregation and persecution.

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