Juderías y sinagogas en el reino de Navarra

Abstract

As of the second half of the xi century, the supposed, age-old “bipolarity” church/castle came to be complemented by the appearance of both boroughs and Jewish quarters. After 1119, Jewish settlements concentrated around two axes in the Kingdom of Navarre: the “news lands” of the Ebro Valley, the communities of Tudela and its “albala”, and the urban refuges scattered along the Navarran road to Santiago. As a real link between these two congregations, one of Islamic and the other of clear Franco-Christian tradition, stand the communities of Navarre’s mid region of the Jewish community of Val de Funes. The scarcely fifty Jewish quarters existing in Navarre at the time were to be found in these three sectors. The aim of...