Leader of Jewish community?
From: "sylvancorona"
Who was the leader of the Jewish community in
Jerusalem on July 15th, 1099 AD, when the Crusaders took the city?
The Doog gave us this bit of information and
website to check out:
Even the Jewish encyclopedia doesn't say, found
here And I've
searched various other sites. I'm guessing it was a name lost in
time, or he just wasn't considered important enough to mention.
C.H.U.D. concluded with this theory:
At the time of the first Crusade Jerusalem was under
the control of the Seljuks, a Turkish tribe. The leader wasn't
Jewish at all.
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