Gravestone, Museum of Jewish History, Girona, Catalonia
Gravestone with Hebrew epitaph, of the son of rabbi Iosef ben Teqa, 1198, in the lapidarium housing tombstones from the Jewish cemetery at Montjuic, used from the 13th century, at the Museum of Jewish History, opened 2000 in the Bonastruc ca Porta Centre, in the Call Jueu or Jewish Quarter, in the old town of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The Jewish community in Girona grew from the 9th century and flourished from the 12th century, when the city housed an important Kabbalistic school, until their expulsion in 1492 under the Catholic Monarchs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14078998
Media ID
45692971
Size
8268px x 6278px
(18.0MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
