Bibliothèque du Séminaire Catholique — fonds hébreux de Braga

The Arquivo Distrital de Braga and the diocesan seminary preserve medieval Hebrew fragments removed from the bindings of church books, testifying to Jewish activity in northern Portugal before 1497. These fragments, discovered in the 1990s, include biblical, talmudic and liturgical texts from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. Their study is part of the Portuguese program for the recovery of "hebraica fragmenta." This documentary deposit illustrates the Jewish presence in the northern regions of the Iberian Peninsula before the expulsion.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan