Spain / The Balearic Islands

Tag | Inca

Location

Inca

Spain › The 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 ...

Location

Besalú

Spain › Catalonia

The presence of Jews in Besalú is attested in a document from 1229 in which Jaume I the Conqueror reserves to them the function of moneylender. In 1342, the community, hitherto linked to the one ...