Judaism · Communities & events
The 1492 expulsion reaches Girona’s Jewish community
1492 CE
The expulsion decree required Jews who refused conversion to leave. Girona’s municipal record preserves the order received in 1492, documenting the forced end of an established local community. The episode forms part of the wider destruction and displacement of Iberian Jewish life.
Why it matters
This local record makes a major persecution concrete and helps explain why later Sephardic communities preserve memories of an Iberian past across many countries.
About the date
Girona received notice in April, with departure required by late July.
Girona
Community that received and implemented the expulsion notice; not the decree’s issuing court.
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