Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Tamid
Angaben zur Quelle:
18 (2023) 7-37
Keywords:
Adret, Solomon ben Abraham,
;
Meiri, Menahem ben Shelomo, Criticism and interpretation
;
Rabbinical literature History and criticism
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Jews History
Abstract:
The Principality of Catalonia flourished on both sides of the easternPyrenees, under the shadow of the kingdoms of France and Spain, but lost some ofits unity when it was divided into Northern Catalonia and Southern Catalonia.Southern Catalonia’s main Jewish community was in Barcelona, and it had only occasional dealings with Spanish territories. That community was led for around 40years by the renowned rabbi Solomon ben Adret (1235-1310), who left behind him alarge number of responsa addressing different questions from the Jewish communities of Northern and Southern Catalonia. His contemporary Rabbi Menaḥem benSolomon ha-Meïri (1249-1315; also known as Vidal Solomon) exercised his ministryin Perpignan, the de facto capital of Northern Catalonia. Some Jews found refuge inNorthern Catalonia in 1492, but were soon expelled from there too. The Jews onboth sides of the Pyrenees regarded themselves as part of a large Catalan territoryand continued to use the Catalan language. The aim of this study is to draw on rabbinic literature to examine the relations between the two communities and the importance of the Barcelona-Perpignan axis, which also passed through Girona. It canbe said that the Pyrenees never truly separated them.
DOI:
10.2436/20.1006.01.84
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