Abstract
The lack of documentary local sources has hindered until here our knowledge of the Jews of the Aragonese town of Belchite, belonging to the count of Luna. By using a manuscript notarial notebook –that had been inaccurately ascribed to a “seigniorial notary’s office of Federico de Aragon”– preserved in the City Archives of Segorbe, the author identifies several Jews living in the town in the 1420s and provides mention of their activities. Some of these Jews are featured in the Hebrew poems by Selomoh Bonafed, the author that will settle in Belchite two decades later.
Highlights
Açaçh Avendino, como receptor general de las rentas del conde de Luna en Aragón, reconoce que los jurados y adelantados de la aljama de judíos de la villa de Luna, por mano de Mossé Argelet, le han entregado 25 florines para el pago del subsidio del quitamiento del presente mes; y 87 ss 6 dd jaqueses, parte proporcional que debían pagar en el donativo de 10.000 ss que hacía un año se había hecho al señor por todos los lugares y villas de su condado (27-X-1422, f.o 53r)
La ausencia de fuentes documentales locales no había permitido hasta ahora conocer con algún detalle la comunidad judía de Belchite situada en el Bajo Aragón
The Jews of Belchite in the So-Called “Notarial Notebook of Federico de Aragon, Count of Luna” (1422-1425).— The lack of documentary local sources has hindered until here our knowledge of the Jews of the Aragonese town of Belchite, belonging to the count of Luna
Summary
Açaçh Avendino, como receptor general de las rentas del conde de Luna en Aragón, reconoce que los jurados y adelantados de la aljama de judíos de la villa de Luna, por mano de Mossé Argelet, le han entregado 25 florines para el pago del subsidio del quitamiento del presente mes; y 87 ss 6 dd jaqueses, parte proporcional que debían pagar en el donativo de 10.000 ss que hacía un año se había hecho al señor por todos los lugares y villas de su condado (27-X-1422, f.o 53r).
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