JEWS IN SPAIN
1492 Law Changed (N.Z.P A.-Keuter—copyright) MADRID. Spain has formally lifted its expulsion order against the Jews—made 476 years ago and long ago abolished in practice—to mark the opening of the first synagogue ever built in Madrid. A Minister of Justice decree, being read at the synagogue inauguration, officially recognised the Jewish community and at the same time “acknowledged the abolition” of the 1492 decree, according to the president of the Madrid Jewish community (Dr Max Mazin). Queen Isabel, known as the "Catholic Queen,” expelled Spain’s flourishing Jewish community in the fifteenth century as a measure aimed at creating political and religious unity, but Jews started to drift back to Spain in the nineteenth century. Today they number about 8500, according to Madrid’s first rabbi since the fifteenth century. Mr Benito Garzon. Madrid has 2500 Jews, and 3000 live in Barcelona, already served by two synagogues. The others live in Southern Spain and Spain’s North African enclaves—Melilla and Ceuta.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31866, 19 December 1968, Page 13
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