Tapestry, Museum of Jewish History, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Dance of Miriam, tapestry by Rosa Lopez Herbera in collaboration with Dolors Antunez, Fina Baulida, Marta Fuster, Carme Janoher, Jenny Stewart, Gloria de la Paz, Maria Vives and Torroella de Montgri, 2005, in 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. This is a copy of a section depicting 2 Jews from the Tapestry of Creation or Girona Tapestry, a Romanesque needlework panel, 11th century, in the collection of Girona Cathedral, and is used as the logo of the museum. 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
