The history of Vienna’s Jewish community can be divided into several distinct periods, with the community itself settling in two specific neighborhoods: in a section of the city center in the First Bezirk and in Leopoldstadt in the Second Bezirk. In the Middle Ages, the first Jewish community in Vienna established itself in what came to be known as the “Judenstadt” in the ...
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Granada
Granada’s splendor was at its apogee in the eleventh century, when Samuel ha-Nagid and his son Joseph were in charge of the kingdom. The large Jewish population exceeded 5000 and reached 20000 by the eve of expulsion. Sadly, the Judería was destroyed by order of the Catholic monarchs. In Granada’s center (Calle Pavanderas), the modern statues of Yehuda ibn Tibbon and the Talmudist ...
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