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and s<'curity. Molmiimicd of Giauada l)uilt r'dstly batli-lidiise in liis capital with the irvcnui'S

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Andalusia

Andemach

of Cologne, In 1386 Andemach was almost entirely destroyed, its hoiises and svnago<rues were demol-

dcrivcil fnini liis Jewisli and Cliiistian sidjjocts. Ismail, in IHIO. laid a special tax upon the houses of

Jews.

But

in the year 13i)l there began on Andalusian that general inassjiore of Jews which was to spread over all Spain and it was in Seville that the Imiuisition beiran its activity. In 14TS, before the <iutbreaU of the great war which was to put an end to the -Moorish ijower in Spain, Jews were forbidden to dwell in Cordova, Seville, and other cities of Andalusia. After the cajiture of MalThe In- aga ( 1487). the Jews of that city with quisition. drew: and on the fall of Granada, in 1402, Jews were allowed to depart unscathed from all towns and .settlements of that kingdom. Andalusia, however, remained full of .secret Jews after tln' edict <if e.vpulsion, and against these the liKpiisition strove until the middle of the eighteenth century, soil



BinLiOfiitAPiiY: f'onde, HlHtnria tie la DominacUm tie Inn Araliis, II Ksi„ifi,i. isav-21, 3 vols., translat»-il lnthoto^Ki>h.)

ished, and the Jews, who had taken refuge iu the castle of the archbishop of Cologne, were expelled from the town. The archbishop, Siegfried von WesU'rluirg, took jiity on them, and for their protection issue<l (August 3, 1287) an award against the town and its burghers. As early as 12,")3 a Jew from Andernach accpiired possession of a piece of ground in

From the following buildingsand districts attachi'd an idea can be of the size of the former conununily of Angained demach: the synagogue, the Jewish cemetery on the lienn, the " .ludeMgasse " (Jews' (|uarler)at the castlegale, the "Judenlhurm" (Jews' tower) between the sheep-gate and the church gate, and the "Jiulenberg." Therewasa " Juilenl)lchel." Thewealthof the community is indicated by the large number of commercinl prtpei"s that have been ]>rescrveil. The most important building was the Jewish bath Iheoldesi of its kind now existing. The bath isalmost entirely un llrst of the-ie divisions tlirii' se<t ions by arcings. is 7 feet and the other two 10; feel from the Moor. Lending from the stairway into the two upper rooms arc two inconvenient entrances, which still show Cologne. to
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Walls .bnut 125r.-n a certain Co.lelif, his wife ISeia.and their son Moses, all of .Vndernach, are mentioned in the ' Judi'iischreinsbueh" (Jewisiuirchives)

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