Tag | Calle Benjamin de Tudela

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Catanzaro

ItalyCalabria

The Jewish presence in Catanzaro dates from the end of the 11th century. In 1073, Robert Guiscard, the Norman conqueror, invited them to develop silk weaving there. They allowed the city to ...

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Volos

Greece

A port city, the Jewish community has been present in Volos since the Antiquity era. Probably from the 2nd century BC, ancient tombs attesting to it, according to historians. But the certainties ...

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Chalkis

Greece

The great peculiarity of the Jewish community of Chalkis is that Jews lived there uninterrupted for over 2,500 years! Probably one of the few in Europe in this case. They settled mainly in the ...

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Posquières-Vauvert

FranceOccitanie

Four hundred Jews lived in Posquières in the 12th century, according to the Benjamin of Tudela’s travels. A city where, as the author recounts, a community very much invested in study and ...

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Lunel

FranceOccitanie

In his Book of Travels, Benjamin of Tudela mentions the Jewish community of Lunel. As well as the active study of texts by students and the spiritual leader Rabbi Meshoullam. According to Tudela, ...

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Cyprus

The Jewish presence in Cyprus probably dates from the 3rd century BC, during the Roman conquest of the island. There seems to have been at least three synagogues, in Lapethos, Golgoi and ...