Private Guide in Palma de Majorca:
Miguel Corral

Member Since 2007
Country: Spain
City: Palma de Majorca
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian
Airport Transfer: YES
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    The Jewish quarter itinerary is designed to offer tourist,visitors or residents a chance to discover one of the most important jewish quarters in the medieval Mediterranean, inhabited by sages,doctors, astronomers and cartografers as : Jafuda and Abraham Cresques. 

    The best tour of Palma de Mallorca for your group could be the icredible Jewish Quarter "el call " in the old Alfama of Medina Majurca. You will imagine how the " xuetes" (Converted Jews) used to live and how they were organized in social levels Those of the "orella alta " (High class) or those of "orella baixa" (Lower class). They lived in the ghetto untill the last pogrom (1391). Then they were forced to convert by the Spanish Inquisition . Some of them continued as "Cripto-jew", and it was not until the end of the 17th century that the label "xueta" was truly earned and the whole community was properly Catholic.

    The Xuetes have historically been stigmatized and until the first half of the 20th century practiced, and were seen aligated to practice, strict endogamy. Today, an estimated 18,000 people in the island carry Xueta surnames.

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