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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Jewish Catalonia and Girona

Els jueus a Catalunya, the new book of the month at the Museum of History of Jewish People.

In 1929, Carles Rahola wrote his book Els jueus a Catalunya. Talking about Girona, he wrote: "Is there someone with a deep and selfless veneration for matters of thinking who does not remember, with all the respect in the world, the name of those Jews who cultivated Philosophy in the silent city where we write these words; who got their sight used to the contemplation of the same horizon we see; who worked and fought here; (...), who found themselves, sometimes protected, sometimes hated and prosecuted?".

This year, during which Girona commemorates the anniversary of the death of Carles Rahola, the Museum of of Jewish People pays him a little homage by means of an exhibition of two original volumes of his work Els jueus a Catalunya (The Jews in Catalonia), one of the first works on this subject published in our country, and which, in spite of the years gone by, is still a useful tool for the research and the promotion of the Jewish history of our country.