Pinchas Roth is currently completing a major ISF-funded project devoted to rabbinic responsa from medieval England. The Jewish community in England existed from shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066 until the Expulsion in 1290. Very little has been known until now about the internal life of medieval English Jews because the surviving Hebrew texts from that period are fragmentary and scattered. Roth is preparing a critical edition of those texts.

Interim publications include:

1. ‘New Responsa by Isaac ben Peretz of Northampton’, Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 46 (2014): 1-17
2. ‘Jewish Courts in Medieval England’, Jewish History 31 (2017): 67-82
3. ‘Medieval English Rabbis – Image and Self-Image’, Early Middle English 1 (2019): 17-33
4. ‘A Hebrew Debate Poem from Medieval England’, Early Middle English 2 (2020): 83-89
5. ‘Words and Seals: Multivalent Language and Jewish Legal Literacy in Medieval England’, Jewish Culture and History 23 (2022): 56-66
6. ‘Rabbi Benjamin of Cambridge: First of the English Rabbis’, Mehqerei Talmud 4 (2023): 817-850 (Hebrew)

An academic workshop, organized around this theme and titled "Jews in Medieval England: New Sources, Fresh Perspectives", took place at Bar-Ilan University in 2022.