Region: Portugal (Beira Alta)
Intersection register · custodian, not owner
Viseu, a city of the Beira Alta, had a judiaria documented throughout the Portuguese Middle Ages. Its Jewish community, active in commerce and the trades, was compelled to forced conversion or exile by the expulsion decree of 1496 promulgated by King Manuel I of Portugal.
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This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Viseu give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
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