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The Many Lives of One of Spain’s Most Magnificent Remaining Places of Jewish Prayer
Now known as the “synagogue of the Assumption.”
Jews first settled in the city of Toledo no earlier than the 7th century CE, and in the Middle Ages it became one of Spain’s great centers of Jewish life and the home of such influential rabbis as Asher ben Yeḥiel. In the 14th century, a local grandee named Samuel ben Meir ha-Levi Abulafia—who at the time was the treasurer of the Castilian king Pedro the Cruel—built a new synagogue in the city. Mia Amram describes the remarkable history of this structure, which still stands today:
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The Many Lives of One of Spain’s Most Magnificent Remaining Places of Jewish Prayer
Now known as the “synagogue of the Assumption.”