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Bible Encyclopedias
Escalona
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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City of Castile; said to have been named after Ascalon in Palestine. Jews were living there at a very early date. The fuero or charter granted to the city in 1130 by D. Alfonso VII. decreed that neither a Jew nor a Moor might sit in judgment against a Christian, and that the murder of a Jew should be punished by a fine of 300 sueldos. In 1391 many of the Jews of Escalona werekilled, and others forced to accept baptism. The ghetto of the city existed until the general expulsion; as late as 1474 it paid a tax of 1,000 maravedis.
Bibliography:
- Muñoz, Colecc. de Fueros, p. 485;
- Gedaliah ibn Yaḥya, Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah, ed. Amsterdam, 94a;
- J. Amador de los Rios, Historia de los Judios de España, 3:599.
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Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Escalona'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/e/escalona.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Escalona'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/e/escalona.html. 1901.
