Palma de Mallorcaפלמה דה מיורקה

Majorca (Spain)

Palma, the chief city of the island of Majorca (Mallorca), then part of the Crown of Aragon, had a significant medieval Jewish community until the anti-Jewish violence of 1391 and the forced conversions that followed. Rabbi Shimon ben Tzemach Duran (the Tashbetz) practiced medicine in Palma before fleeing, in the wake of the 1391 persecutions, to Algiers, where he became a leading halachic authority of North African Jewry.

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