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Gerona

The province of Gerona in the northeast of Spain covers an area of 5,886 square km and has a population of about half a million inhabitants. The most striking characteristic about the province is undoubtedly its great diversity. The 12 century was characterised by the building of many outstanding Romanesque constructions and during the Gothic period the city began to expand and enlarge its walled sections which spread towards the districts that had grown up around the Roman part.

Fortified city in nothern Spain, the jewish were in possession of houses and lands which they could hold without restriction but the councils of Gerona decided that a tenth of any landed property which a Jew lived in acquired from a christian should accrue to the state. The Jew of Gerona lived undistrubed under the Saracens and during the long reign of King Jaime the Conqueror. The subsequent history of the Jews in Gerona is a long series of molestations and persecutions.The persecution of the Pastoureaux also affected the Jews of Gerona and during the Black Death the loss of fire in Gerona was appalling two thirds of the population being swept away.

The Jews were held responsible for every accident and misfortune that befell the city, and when the old tower of Geronella fell in 1404 the clergy announced that this was God’s punishment upon the city for tolerating the Jews within its walls. The Jews left Gerona on August 1492 only a few accepting baptism and the houses in the Jewry were sold at auction . Gerona a strictly religious community in which much attention was paid to the study of the Talmud was the birthplace of several men bearing cognomen Gerondi who have made the city famous.