JEWS IN SPAIN.
o ' FIRST LEGAL SYNAGOGUE. /■ RECOGNITION OF COMMUNITY. / (Received December 28, 7.5 p.m.) MADRID. Dec. 27. The first legally recognised synagogue since the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 was opened to-day, with a congregation of 30 families. 1 The police representative read out the protocol giving the provisional status of the congregation, which was then - signed by Senor Bauer, whose personal intervention with King Alfonso secured the recognition of the Jewish community. Beside the synagogue, a section of ' the civil cemetery at- Seville, in spite of Church opposition, has been reserved / for Jewish burials.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20758, 29 December 1930, Page 9
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