FAMOUS INHABITANTS OF THE JEWISH QUARTER OF SEVILLE

In this website we have collected a selection of the most prominent inhabitants of the Sevillian Jewish quarter during the Middle Ages. The information we have about the members of the Jewish community in Seville is very scarce, both in the Islamic and Christian periods. The sources only refer to them indirectly, so an intense historiographical work is necessary just to try to reconstruct what daily life was like among the Jews during the Middle Ages and their relationship with the rest of the city's inhabitants.

Most of the names we can cite were linked to the administration, occupying various positions in the service of the Crown, which has allowed us to leave testimony of their existence or activity. Some others developed an intellectual work, mainly as Talmudists and scholars of sacred texts, doctors or astronomers. Many of their works were published in times after the expulsion of 1492 and in the context of the Sephardic communities of various North African and European cities. Thanks to these editions, their memory has been preserved and today we can include them in this selection of illustrious Sevillian Jews.