Image: The Courtyard of the Rabbis at the Center Bonastruc ça Porta, the final tour of the Museum.
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THE MUSEUM. The Museu d'Història dels Jueus, is located between the carrer de la Força, and the carrer de Sant Llorenç, in the Centre Bonastruc ça Porta into Call de Girona, the old Jewish Quarter.The name of the site which houses the museum refers to a important Kabbalist, also known as Moshe ben Nahman Gerondi, Ramban or Nahmanides. THE COLLECTION. The Museu d'Història dels Jueus leads us through the history of the Jewish communities of medieval Catalonia, and the route based on examples from the history of the Jews of Girona and archaeological material and documentary on the community of Girona and from elsewhere in Europe. The Museum has been conceived and designed to contain the largest and most meticulous information on the medieval Jewish communities can be found in a public institution in the Spanish State. The different rooms of the museum relate aspects of Jewish life in middle age, refer to the daily life and family in the call, the internal organization of communities, the cycle of the life, the calendar, the holidays, the customs and traditions of the Jewish population, as was a Synagogue Catalan, which constituted the elements and what was their role as community center for prayer and study. It also recreates the Montjuïc cemetery through the impressive tombstones with Hebrew inscriptions, which form the collection of Hebrew lapidary country's largest. |
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