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Name:Instructor:Course:Date:Paper 3: Jewish CommunityThe Jewish communities in Medieval Europe lived as a minority group. Sidelined to confined settlement in areas identified as ghettos. The dominant Christian community in Europe did not fully trust the Jewish community. Thereby, denying them the right to own land, and participate in agricultural activities. Their economic status was characterized with poverty compared to their dominant Christian counterparts. The fact that rulers denied certain rights to the Jewish Community in Medieval Europe meant that the Jews lived a miserable life. Therefore, the Charter of Bishop Rudiger came at a backdrop of repressiveness towards the Jewish Community in Medieval Europe. This paper would discuss the Jewish community in Medieval Europe, the legal status, and their relationship with dominant Christians. Bishop Rudiger invited Jews to live in the City of Speyer in his Charter of 1084, because he knew the kind of predicaments that the Jews had gone through in Europe. The Jews were not fully accepted as a part of Europe and therefore, did not mingle freely with Christians. They were discriminated upon and settled in specific places so that they could be monitored. The Jewish community was seen as traitor and suspected of having a