The Jews of Loulé in the Middle Ages will be the subject of a conference this Saturday, November 16, at 15 pm, at the Professor Joaquim Romero Magalhães Municipal Archive of Loulé.
This presentation focuses on the presence of Jews in the kingdom of Algarve until the general expulsion of December 1492, with an emphasis on documentation relating to Silves and Loulé.
The emphasis on that documentation is related to the fact that, for both communities, there is fundamental or even unique information about the life of medieval Jews, in the context of the scarcity of sources produced by them or about them.
In their rarity, they offer us precious clues about the daily life of their communities, their economic, social and cultural experiences, and concrete signs of their linguistic identity as producers of difference.
José Alberto R. Silva Tavim is a researcher at the History Center, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon and Chair of the seminar “Jews in Portugal and the Diaspora”, at the same institution. He has published 5 books on the subject, and in international journals. He is editor and founding member of the journal Hamsa, Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies.
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