{"id":3977,"date":"2023-02-18T21:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T05:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?post_type=encyclopedia&amp;p=3977"},"modified":"2023-02-18T21:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T05:46:40","slug":"zaragoza-saragossa","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?encyclopedia=zaragoza-saragossa","title":{"rendered":"Zaragoza (Saragossa)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Zaragoza-Saragossa-Palacio-de-la-Aljaferia-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Zaragoza (Saragossa), Palacio de la Aljafer&iacute;a\" class=\"wp-image-3979\" style=\"width:372px;height:496px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Zaragoza-Saragossa-Palacio-de-la-Aljaferia-766x1024.jpg 766w, http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Zaragoza-Saragossa-Palacio-de-la-Aljaferia-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Zaragoza-Saragossa-Palacio-de-la-Aljaferia-768x1026.jpg 768w, http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Zaragoza-Saragossa-Palacio-de-la-Aljaferia-500x668.jpg 500w, http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Zaragoza-Saragossa-Palacio-de-la-Aljaferia.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup>Zaragoza (Saragossa), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turismodearagon.com\/ficha\/palacio-de-la-aljaferia-zaragoza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palacio de la Aljafer&iacute;a<\/a>, detaing from the medieval Muslim period.<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zaragoza, a city in the region of Aragon in northeastern Spain, is commonly known as Saragossa in English, &#1505;&#1512;&#1511;&#1512;&#1505;&#1496;&#1492; or &#1505;&#1512;&#1511;&#1505;&#1496;&#1492; in medieval Hebrew. It had a notable Jewish community in the medieval period, both under Muslim and Christian rule. A Roman city in antiquity, Zaragoza was conquered by Muslims in the seventh century and by Christian forces in 1118. Though a 1294 blood libel disturbed the community, and it was heavily affected by the 1348-49 outbreak of Black Plague, the Jews of Zaragoza were among the only communities to be shielded from the violence of the anti-Jewish riots of 1391-92 by royal presence in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=zaragoza&amp;z=6&amp;t=m&amp;output=embed\" style=\"border:0;height:300px;width:100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The many attested medieval synagogues of Zaragoza are no longer extant, and traces of Jewish life in the city are almost entirely gone. There were once two Jewish quarters (juder&iacute;as or calls) or areas of Jewish settlement in the city, an older quarter within the old Roman precincts, and a newer one. (Settlement in Iberia&rsquo;s juder&iacute;as were customary but voluntary, i.e., not mandatory and enforced as in the early modern Italian ghettos.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notable Jewish residents of Zaragoza include, in the Islamic period, the grammarian R. Yonah Ibn Janach, the poet and philosopher R. Shlomo Ibn Gabirol and the ethicist R. Bachya Ibn Pakuda; in the Christian period, the <a href=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?encyclopedia=talmud\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Commonly refers to the Talmud Bavli, meaning the Mishnah (redacted Oral Law) with the Gemara (commentary) as redacted in Bavel (Babylon). It is also called by the acronym Shas, referring to the six orders (sedarim, sing. seder) into which the tractates (massekhtot, sing. massekhet) of the Mishnah and Gemara on it are divided. Today, there&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Talmud<\/a>ic scholars Rabbenu Bachya ben Asher, <a href=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?encyclopedia=ritva\" target=\"_self\" title=\"R. Yom Tov ben Avraham Ishvili (&quot;of Seville&quot;) - &#1512;&#1497;&#1496;&#1489;&quot;&#1488; - &#1512;' &#1497;&#1493;&#1501; &#1496;&#1493;&#1489; &#1489;&#1503; &#1488;&#1489;&#1512;&#1492;&#1501; &#1488;&#1513;&#1489;&#1497;&#1500;&#1497; (c. 1250&ndash;1330) is one of the foremost Sefardi commentators on the Talmud. Life Though his family was apparently from Seville in southern Spain, Ritva is associated with Zaragoza (Saragossa) in Aragon, where he was a dayan (rabbinical court&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Ritva<\/a>, and Rivash, the philosopher and statesment R. Chasdai Crescas, and the prominent Alconstantini&nbsp;and&nbsp;de la Cavaller&iacute;a&nbsp;families (the latter of which largely converted to Christianity after 1492). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Megillat-Saragossa-CUL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4093\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Megillat-Saragossa-CUL.jpg 512w, http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Megillat-Saragossa-CUL-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Megillat-Saragossa-CUL-500x311.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup>Megillat Saragossa, 17th cen., <a href=\"https:\/\/dlc.library.columbia.edu\/catalog\/cul:r7sqv9s51r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Columbia University Libraries Ms. General 160.<\/a><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the tradition of recording individual &ldquo;Purims,&rdquo; occasions on which a Jewish community was threatened but survived, there is a Megillat Saragossa. Scholars debate whether it refers to Zaragoza in Spain or Siracusa (Syracuse) in Italy. The text can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/opensiddur.org\/readings-and-sourcetexts\/festival-and-fast-day-readings\/jewish-readings\/purim-sheni-readings\/megillat-saragossa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, in Hebrew with English translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaragoza, a city in the region of Aragon in northeastern Spain, is commonly known as Saragossa in English, \u05e1\u05e8\u05e7\u05e8\u05e1\u05d8\u05d4 or \u05e1\u05e8\u05e7\u05e1\u05d8\u05d4 in medieval Hebrew. It had a notable Jewish community in the medieval period, both under Muslim and Christian rule. 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