During the conquest of Sardinia by Peter IV of Aragon in the 14th century, Jews were part of the contingent of soldiers. Following the conquest, some settled there, joined in 1370 by Jewish families from Catalonia and France. Nonetheless, the Jewish presence in Sardinia seems to date back at least two thousand years. A synagogue was built in Alghero in 1381. And a Jewish cemetery four years ...
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Trancoso
The medieval town of Trancoso is very strongly marked by its Jewish past. Indeed, throughout the Middle Ages, the community of this city in northern Portugal has experienced an economic and social expansion almost unique in Europe. Trancoso, thanks to its important fair, was a city of passage and exchange. In the fifteenth century, the Jewish population rose to more than 500 people, which ...
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The community in Braganca was important, and welcomed 3000 additional Jews, expulsed from Spain in 1492. Therefore, the community played a major role in the local economic and social growth. The community relived from 1925. Opened in 2017, the two-story Sephardi Interpretive Center is dedicated to the life of Jews under the persecution in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and focuses on ...
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Located an hour drive from Jaen, Úbeda’s story is similar to the one of the Jewish community in Jaen. But since the accidental discovery of -maybe the most ancient synagogue in the country- the city became a not to be missed destination is Spain. The Synagogue of Water was discovered during building works carried out in several real estate properties located in the heart of the historic ...
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The presence of a Jewish community in Jaen is first recorded in 612 when a king’s edict forbade Jews to own Christian slaves. If the Jewish population reached its peak during the seventh century, there were most probably Jews already during the Roman period. The geographer Abd al Nur Al-Himyari mentions during the ninth century a mikveh in Jaen, known as Isaac bath. The walls of the ...
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The Jews who lived within the walls of the little hilltop town of Castelo de Vide were engaged in the traditional activities of commerce, crafts, and sometimes medicine. The population grew after 1492 with the arrival of Jews from Spain. The former Judaria is fairly easy to identify around the market square (Praço de Comércio). Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries the characteristic ...
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The town of Vitoria had 300 Jews in 1290 and 900 on the eve of the expulsion -the equivalent of 6 or 7% of the total population. Their main activities were tax collecting and medicine. In 1492 they took refuge in Bayonne across the French border, where, even today, the Jews think of themselves as the descendants of those in Vitoria. The most surprising vestige of the Jewish presence is the ...
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After many years of English domination, the southwest was returned to France in the fifteenth century, at the end of the Hundred Years War. In an effort to stimulate growth in this ravaged region, Louis XI offered special privileges to foreigners wishing to settle there. This largesse attracted Portuguese and Spanish Jews oppressed by the Inquisition and religious intolerance in their home ...
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