Qualla: Jewish quarter of Inca https://qualla.com/jewish-quarter-of-inca en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Jewish quarter of Inca https://qualla.com/jewish-quarter-of-inca Jewish quarter of Inca: Introduction https://qualla.com/jewish-quarter-of-inca/ When the king's men offered them a street of collapsing houses, the Jews of Inca said no. It was 1346, and King Peter IV of Aragon had just ordered them gathered into a quarter of their own — a call, in Catalan — at the urging of Christian neighbours who resented living among them. The first plot proposed, a rundown lane called Carrer d'en Prats, stood in such disrepair that the community appealed directly to the crown. Remarkably, the king agreed and told his governor to find them something better. That small act of refusal opened one of the longest and most bitterly negotiated property disputes in medieval Mallorca.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/1/jewish-quarter-of-inca-wp/sp41-jewish-quarter-of-inca-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jewish quarter of Inca: A Presence Older Than the Kingdom https://qualla.com/jewish-quarter-of-inca/ Jews had lived on Mallorca long before there was a call to contain them. When Jaume I conquered the island in 1229, he found a Jewish community already established in Inca — and their roots ran deeper still. Severus, the bishop of neighbouring Menorca, had recorded a Jewish prese...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/1/jewish-quarter-of-inca-wp/sp41-jewish-quarter-of-inca-a-presence-older-than-the-kingdom.mp3 0:06 2 full Jewish quarter of Inca: Twenty-Four Years of Paper https://qualla.com/jewish-quarter-of-inca/ The search for a better site dragged on for years. In 1353 a royal deputy, Guillermo de Lagostera, arrived with legal experts and, together with the town's officials and the secretaries of the aljama, settled on a lane called Carrer d'en Pascolet. Then the money troubles began. H...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/1/jewish-quarter-of-inca-wp/sp41-jewish-quarter-of-inca-two-gates.mp3 0:06 4 full Jewish quarter of Inca: What the Fire Left https://qualla.com/jewish-quarter-of-inca/ It did not last. In 1391, as mobs swept through Jewish communities across Aragon and Castile, the violence reached Mallorca. In Inca and Palma alike, mobs burned homes and businesses, and most of those who survived were forced to convert to Christianity under threat of further vi...

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