New York – Google has partnered with the Network of Jewish Neighborhoods (Juderias de Eapaña), a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 dedicated to protecting “urban, architectural, historical, artistic and culturally Sephardic heritage and Jewish culture in Spain,” to develop the Routes of Sepharad or Caminos di Sefarad website which was launched this week in Madrid.
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Powered by Google Maps and Street View technology, visitors can now take a virtual tour of the primary Jewish landmarks in 24 cities and towns in Spain. Users can click on a landmark to learn information about the site and see a 360-degree view of the location, reports the Spanish-language website Hoy.es (http://bit.ly/ZWbB4H).
A total of 523 sites, 910 dates, and 1,667 photos are now available online according to a blog post written by William Echikson, head of Google External Relations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The Routes of Sepharad website can be viewed at www.redjuderias.org.
Maybe if the zoom is powerful enough you can see martyr blood stains. On the bright side they might lose Jewish tourist income.
Burgos not yet on the map… This Judaria was home to R. Meir Abulafia a Great Spanish Mukubal… The exploits of El CID financed by taxes on the Jewish community of Burgos…. Many Jews from
Burgos fled to Venice, then Turkey, Balkans, Morocco
If it had not been for Don Yitzhak Abravanel and Don Avraham Senyor, the original edict was 100 percent conversion or death…. If you google the edict, you can find the eloquent letter Don Yitzhak Abravanel write to Fernando and Isabella imploring them to have mercy on the Jewish people…. The focus of the inquisition was on conversos rather than those that left in 1492… However the violence and murder of Jewish families began in the late 1300s and continued for centuries… The death toll is tremendous and spans many countries…. Don Yitzhak Abravanel was a direct descendent of David Ha Melech on the Paternal side and really came to the aid of all Sephardic Jews… He used all his wealth, influence in the Spanish court, and eloquence to save his Brothers & Sisters… I encourage you to read his letter in English or Spanish, his poetry reads like one would expect of a descendent of David, Like Tehillim….