Joshua Stanton's Blog – June 2011 Archive (1)

Jewish Homelessness in History: What It Teaches Us Now

I first saw a Judería when walking in the streets of Segovia, a small Spanish city just a couple of hours outside of Madrid. Though not a Jewish "ghetto" in being so tightly sealed as the Jewish areas of Venice or Rome, it delimited the section of the city in which Jews could settle.

"Why," I thought to myself, "would anyone want to live here?" The streets were narrow, the shops tightly packed. I could just imagine how readily disease must have spread -- especially when there was…

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