La judería de Puente la Reina (c. 1080-1410)

Abstract

There are constant references to the existence of this Jewish quarter and its significant role on the route of  pilgrimage to Compostela in all the summarised works taken to be classics, but they barely take up more than  two lines. More than proven contributions, they consisted of mere hypotheses, founded perhaps on the  existence of Hebrew documents relative to this community in the now-famous box 192 in the General Archive of Navarra. Our aim is extremely modest: to provide new information in an attempt at outlining the history of the Jews residing on this unique stage of the Pilgrims’ Road to Santiago, from their possible arrival alongside rankish immigrants in the last third of the XI century to the first...