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General view of the gate, internal side. The Puerta del Cambrón is a gate located in the west sector of the Spanish city of Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha.Also called previously "Gate of the Jews" [1] or "Gate of Saint Leocadia", has been speculated The possibility that the name of the gate, del Cambrón, had its origin in the growth of a thorn bush or plant at the top of the ruins of one of ...
Street in the Jewish quarter of Toledo Samuel ha-Levi street. The Jewish quarter of Toledo is a district of the city of Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It was the neighborhood in which the Jews lived in the Middle Ages, although they were not obliged to live within it. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Jewish community of Toledo became ...
The Puerta de Bisagra Nueva ("The New Bisagra Gate") is the best known city gate of Toledo, Spain. The gate is of Moorish origin, but the main part was built in 1559 by Alonso de Covarrubias. [1] It carries the coat of arms of the emperor Charles V. It superseded the Puerta Bisagra Antigua as the main entrance to the city.
After the Battle of Uclés, at which the Infante Sancho, together with 30,000 men were killed, an anti-Jewish riot broke out in Toledo; many Jews were slain, and their houses and synagogues were burned (1108). Alfonso intended to punish the murderers and incendiaries, but died in June 1109 before he could carry out his intention.
Commenting upon the command to love the neighbor [5] is a discussion recorded [6] between Rabbi Akiva, who declared this verse in Leviticus to contain the great principle of the Law ("Kelal gadol ba-Torah"), and Ben Azzai, who pointed to Genesis 5:1 ("This is the book of the generations of Adam; in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him"), as the verse expressing the ...
The Siege of Toledo (Arabic: سقوط طليطلة, romanized: Suqūṭ Ṭulayṭilah, lit. 'Fall of Ṭulayṭilah') was the Castilian siege and eventual conquest of Toledo , the capital of the Taifa of Toledo , by Alfonso VI of León and Castile in Muharram 478 / May 1085.
The Synagogue of El Tránsito (Spanish: Sinagoga del Tránsito), also known as the Synagogue of Samuel ha-Levi or Halevi, [3] is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at on Calle Samuel Levi, in the historic old city of Toledo, in the province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
A 1964 decree created the institution [1] and installation work began the following year. [2] The museum was opened to visitors on 13 June 1971. [3] In this way, aspirations dating back at least to 1915 became a reality, as many "testimonies of Jewish culture as may be found scattered throughout the Museums of Spain" were collected in one building . [4]