Toledo Spain - Sephardic Museum
A short look at the Jewish influence in Toledo.
There was once a thriving Jewish community living in harmony with the Muslims and Christians. Sharing facilities for prayer. The two remaining synagogues have mainly Moorish architecture and Christian embellishments.
Not much remains of the Jewish influence!
The Sephardic museum does have a good collection of Jewish articles.
Music by Spanish group Klesmática.
Places to see in ( Castile La Mancha - Spain ) El Transito Synagogue and Sephardic Museum
Places to see in ( Castile La Mancha - Spain ) El Transito Synagogue and Sephardic Museum
The Synagogue of El Transito, once also known as the Synagogue Samuel ha-Levi is a historic building in Toledo, Spain. It is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada.
t was founded as a synagogue by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family that had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholars such as Meir and Todros Abulafia, and another Todros Abulafia who was one of the last poets to write in the Arab-influenced style favored by Jewish poets in twelfth and thirteenth-century Spain. King Peter probably gave his assent to the building of the synagogue to compensate the Jews of Toledo for destruction that had occurred in 1348, during anti-Jewish riots that accompanied the arrival of the Black Death in Toledo. The founder eventually fell foul of the king and was executed in 1360. The synagogue was converted to a church after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The building, which is in a good state of conservation for its age, is currently a museum.
After the expulsion of the city's Jews under the Alhambra decree in 1492, the Synagogue came under the Order of Calatrava, who converted the building into a church serving a priory dedicated to Saint Benedict. In the 17th century the church's name changed to Nuestra Señora del Transito: the name derives from a painting by Juan Correa de Vivar, Transit of the Virgin.
The synagogue was also used as military headquarters during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1877 the building became a national monument. The transformation of the building into the Sephardi Museum, as it is now officially called, started around 1910. It was initiated by the Veca-Inclan foundation.
This Synagogue was the private family synagogue of the king's wealthy treasurer, Don Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia. With the apparent approval of the king, he defied all the laws about synagogues being smaller and lower than churches, and plain of decoration. It features Nasrid-style polychrome stucco-work, Hebrew inscriptions praising the king and himself, and quotations from the Psalms, as well as multifoil arches and a massive Mudéjar panelled ceiling. Arabic inscriptions are intertwined with the floral patterns in the stucco pane.
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The Synagogue of El Transito (Spanish: Sinagoga del Tránsito) is a historic building in Toledo, Spain. Founded as a synagogue by Samuel ha-Levi, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in 1336, it was converted to a church after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The building, which is in a good state of conservation for its age, is currently a museum.
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The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca (literally Synagogue of Saint Mary the White, originally known as the Ibn Shushan Synagogue, or commonly the Congregational Synagogue of Toledo) is a museum and former synagogue in Toledo, Spain. Erected in 1180, according to an inscription on a beam, it is disputably considered the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It is now owned and preserved by the Catholic Church.
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Santa María la Blanca is a former synagogue in Toledo, Spain. Erected in 1180, it claims to be the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It became a church in 1405 but no major reforms were done for the change.Its stylistic and cultural classification is unique as it was constructed under the Christian Kingdom of Castile by Islamic architects for Jewish use. It is considered a symbol of the cooperation that existed among the three cultures that populated the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.
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Toledo, Spain has two of the oldest surviving synagogues in Europe, and a museum that highlights the Sephardic culture associated with those synagogues.
TOLEDO Spain
Toledo arose over the course of 2,500 years, whose legacy we can observe today in its
streets, monuments and museums.
On the other side of the Tagus River, at the Cerro del Bu archaeological site, remnants
of its origins as a city take us back to its oldest inhabitants, the Carpetani, who dwelled
here during the Bronze Age.
Conquering the city in 192 BC, the Romans renamed it Toletum. Today one can still see
signs of the Empire’s heritage, in the traces of the Roman road, the circus for chariot
races, beams, mosaics and, in Carranque, near Toledo, the villa, it is believed, of
Maternus Cinegius, who served under Emperor Theodosius I.
After the Visigoths’ taking of the city in the 4th century, they established the capital of
their kingdom here, and two centuries later, in 589, Reccared would convene the
Council of Toledo, at which Arianism was rejected and Catholicism was embraced as
the kingdom's faith.
But Visigothic hegemony would only last until 711, when the Moors conquered the
capital. It is to this empire that Toledo owes its current form, including the narrow and
steep streets we walk today, and architectural highlights like the mosques of Cristo de
la Luz, and Tornerías; and the Puerta de Alcantara gate.
The Reconquest reached Toledo in 1085 and, after the Christians' victory, King Alfonso
VI made it the capital of the Kingdom of Castile, wresting this honour from Burgos.
In 1226, Fernando III began construction on the Cathedral of Toledo, on what had been
the city’s Mezquita Mayor, or Main Mosque.
Meanwhile, throughout these centuries of conquest and reconquest, the Jews had
remained in Toledo, also shaping it and leaving us examples of their architecture, such
as the Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca, and that of El Tránsito. This cultural
coexistence would begin to erode in the 14th century, until it was shattered by the
Catholic Monarchs, who decreed the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.
These kings were also responsible for the contruction of the Monasterio de San Juan
de los Reyes, Toledo's quintessential Gothic building. In fact, it was here where they
wished to be buried, though their remains were ultimately laid to rest far from Toledo,
in Granada's Royal Chapel.
In the 16th century, after the revolt of los comuneros against King Charles V, the ruler
wished to show the world the power of the Empire's capital through impressive works
of Renaissance architecture, such as El Alcázar, now an army museum – which would
have a sad moment of prominence during the Spanish Civil War, when rebel troops
resisted the Republican army's siege of the fortress.
Many centuries before this episode, Toledo's hegemony as capital of the kingdom
came to an end when in 1561 the King Felipe II moved the court to Madrid, relegating
Toledo to city of convents and monasteries. It was during this era when the artist that
would forever be associated with the culture of the city moved there: El Greco. It was
here where the painter developed his fullest and most personal style, with works like
the main altarpiece of the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, and The Burial of the
Count of Orgaz, which we can view in the church of Santo Tomé.
Today Toledo is the capital of Castilla la Mancha, and a living example of the cultures
that have shaped, over the centuries, the country we are today.