Spain / The Balearic Islands

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Inca

SpainThe Balearic Islands

It is known that there was a Jewish community in Inca at least since Jaume I conquered Mallorca in 1229. That said, their presence had been mentioned before by Severus, bishop of the island in ...

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Palma de Mallorca

SpainThe Balearic Islands

The call is clearly defined by a small square and the Carrer de la Call. It is one of Spain’s most important for the quality and richness of its houses, even if urban development work has ...

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The Balearic Islands

Spain

There have been Jews in the Balearic Islands since the Roman occupation. After Jaume I won the islands from the Arabs, many Jews arrived from Catalonia but also the south of France and North ...

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Tortosa

SpainCatalonia

Tortosa was home to one of the peninsula’s oldest communities, as attested by a seventh-century headstone discovered in the nineteenth century and now on display in the cathedral cloister. ...

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Valls

SpainCatalonia

Standing on the trading route between Lérida and Tarragona, Valls had a thriving little community that was, however, almost annihilated in the pogroms of 1391, a few Jews remaining after… ...