Switch Editions? Copy Share URL. Channel: This Day In Jewish History. X Are you the publisher? Claim or contact us about this channel. Remove ADS. Viewing all articles. First Page Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page Last Page. Browse latest View live. March For the salvation of our Lord; the pious, felicitous Emperor Severus Alexander and the Empress Julia Mamea, mother of the Emperor; Cosmius, chief of the Spondilla customhouse, head of the synagogue of the Jews, gladly fulfills his vow.
The town of Tortosa, Spain, was the scene of a disputation between Christians and Jews from through These disputations were always rigged so that the Christians would win. The Pope or as he described by some the anti-Pope was enraged by the lack of conversions which was the cause of the ban.
He respected learning, even when that learning was Jewish. In a dispute concerning the Talmud, Leo took the side of Johann Reuchlin one of the Christian scholars who could read Hebrew. He defended the Talmud, saying that it did blaspheme Jesus or Christianity. Despite the pressure on him to burn the Talmud to the opposed tact and had a Christian printer produced the text in its entirety, without censorship.
Leo banned the requirement of the Jew Badge in his French possessions and refused to enforce it in his Italian holdings. Lopez was probably the first Jew to be granted citizenship in Massachusetts. By the time of his death, he had returned to the reactionary views that had marked the start of his reign.
The price of citizenship included the adoption of family names in the Western style. Although later reaction revoked most of this freedom, the discrimination never returned to the level existing in the "Middle Ages.
