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Thanks - I’ve been to Segovia several times. It and Toledo both have wonderful Jewish Quarters.Hi@ShoshTrvls, Segovia is not on the Frances, but it’s a short trip from Madrid, and the former synagogue (possibly built around 1410) is now the Church of the Corpus Christi convent. It’s part of the Jewish Quarter which I understand includes a museum and educational center. The church was closed the day I was there.
As for the Frances, I believe you’ll also find information on Burgos and Castrojeriz, per this link:
Some cities in Burgos(Spain) develop a sephardic itenerary in the province - JewishToledo and JewishSegovia
http://www.lavanguardia.com/ocio/viajes/20170204/414004766309/pueblos-de-burgos-impulsan-un-itinerario-cultural-sefardi-en-la-provincia.html The Burgos municipality of Castrillo Mota de Judíos, which in 2015 got rid of its surname ‘matajudíos’, promotes a project to create a Sephardic cultural...
Buen Camino!
As a quarter Sephardic/quarter Syrian/Half Ashkenazi Jew, (I guess I have alot of the bases covered haha) I too am always interested in discovering the Jewish quarters whenever I am in Europe and on the camino. I remember being in Tomar and seeing a sign for a Jewish quarter and synagogue but could never find it. I can say after my first camino 11 years ago I flew in and out of Barcelona and when I was done I had almost a week in Barcelona before my flight home. I went by the tourist office and there was a tour in English of the Jewish Quarter in Barcelona. It was really interesting. I had walked through the quarter the day before and saw a couple of Mezuzahs on doors but that was about it. Going with the tour guide and with eyes much wider thanks to her you could see the history of Jews in Barcelona everywhere. There were things carved into walls and on sidewalks. Faded signs on corners or walls. It was a really informative, fun and at times, of course knowing our history very sad day. One really great thing was that there were about 12 people on the tour and I was the only Jewish person. It was so good to see that there were so many people interested in learning about Jewish history in Barcelona. I hope others will add spots on all the different caminos for all of us to look for to learn more.
Why this building is jewish?. I read on internet that it is neomudejar from the 19th century, but only that.
When I was in Belorado, the town's infomatiion boards mentioned the estaishment of a Jewish neighbourhood (el corro) below tte castle.
www.belorado.org
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Tomar, in Portugal…yes..
Most intact I believe is located in old center of Sevilla….Inclosed gateways and curfew on daily basis….?…..how was that accepted…??
!Thanks for posting these. I saw several of them on my walk and got super excited. I found being Jewish on a Catholic pilgrimage to be an interesting space to be in.
I think that building was never a sinagoga or a yeshivá. During the 19th century there wasn't really religious freedom in Spain and now there isn't any sinagoga in Leon. That building is going to be a clinic.
Ribadavia is on the Caminho da Geira e dos Arrieiros. If you walk that route, you can start in Salamanca on the Torres (which hooks up with the Geira in Braga) and then you will have a chance to visit Trancoso, which had a very important Jewish quarter and one very famous narive Jewish son. The main street of the quarter still shows original carvings on the doorways where people carved crosses to convince the inquisitors that they had converted. Its native son, Isaac Cardoso, became physician of the royal court of Madrid, and there is now a center/museum in his name.
I read on internet that Belmonte ( Portugal) is on Caminho Via da Estrela.
Hi! Just saw your post from last year. I have walked the Camino frances many times as a jew. Wrote a book about many of the medieval Jewish locations on the route. You can find it on Amzon “A Jew on the Camino”. I also wrote a novel about a Jewish lady of Burgos”The Rabbis Wife, the Bishop’s Wife”, based on a true story of the 14th century.
Hi all, I’m currently walking the Camino Frances. Expect to arrive in Santiago around September 16-17. Anyone who’s interested in a free short tour of the medieval Jewish quarter of Santiago, let me know.
I think that can be said of just about every Jewish Quarter in Spain for the past 500 years. There's a reason the old synagogues that you walk into in Spain tend to have names like "Santa Maria la Blanca" (in Toledo). Not because Spain's Jews were especially devoted to St. Mary.
A little more research shows that the remaining Jews in Nájera were driven out in the late 15th century. Nájera and most of Spain unless they “converted”. Even after conversion, they were still suspect.
Jews were expelled from Spain in the same year as the discovery of the Americas and the same year that the Reconquista was completed. A busy year! One of the main activities of the Spanish Inquisition was to look for people who had converted without fully giving up their former faith. Interesting for me, as a student of culinary history, food habits were a major source of evidence in the Inquisition trials of suspected secret Jews.
I remember seeing a special exhibit in, I think, the Ávila cathedral, displaying the actual expulsion order signed by Fernando and Isabel. Pretty chilling.
It was interesting to me to learn that, after the Reconquista was complete, it was seen as much more urgent to expel the Jews than to expel the Muslims, who were allowed to stay for several decades more before they, too, were expelled.
Trancoso has a lot of Jewish history for those (like you!) who will be walking the Torres. Even a little museum. Isaac Cardoso, a native son, was the personal physician of the king of Spain in the 1500s. I remember walking through the judería and being able to make out (just barely, usually) the carvings in some of the doorways intending to indicate that the owners had converted to Catholicism.
Always a question of finances….
They had to respect the conditions of the agreement for the surrender in Granada. Out of Granada, In Valencia nearly 40% of people were Moriscos who worked in the agriculture.
Some of these comments reminded me that both Portugal and Spain had programs that granted citizenship to those who could trace their ancestry to Jews who had been expelled. I know some Latin Americans and a Turkish citizen who were successful. A brief google search suggests that the program is no longer operative in Spain, and though there was a movement to rescind the program in Portugal, it looks like it is still in operation.
Yes, It seems that Spain put more difficult requirements than Portugal to obtain the nationality. I read on Internet that 8365 people got the Spanish citizenship.
Yes, it was ... while not window dressing ... not a program that most decendants of Spanish Jews could take advantage of.
Would we really say that the Americas were discovered in 1492? I’m fairly sure the indigenous people knew that they were there.
Yes, for sure. And the Scandinavians also made it across the Atlantic before Columbus. And Columbus reached some islands but never the continent, if I remember correctly. Nevertheless, I think it is fair to say that the geographic understanding of Western Europeans, particularly the Spanish, whose history we are discussing, expanded noticeably in 1492, and it was another significant way that the year was momentous for Spain.Would we really say that the Americas were discovered in 1492? I’m fairly sure the indigenous people knew that they were there.
And, I hope you know that as we say here in Texas, I was just messin with you.
That's right, and of course, at that time the region that we call New Mexico, and much of the US southwest was still part of Mexico. The US fought a war with Mexico in the 1840s, which expanded the size of the United States by about a third. And those regions were full of conversos.
Yes, I heard of the law and then heard the program was no longer in effect. Last week, in incidental reading, I read that it was back on. So I decided for this post I should look into it some. From the link below it now looks like you get a pass on certain requirements needed by others to gain citizenship such as a reduced residency requirement.
www.giambronelaw.com
