Die Jüdin von Toledo
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Die Jüdin von Toledo is a 1955 novel by German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger. The story focuses on the "Golden Age" of learning in medieval Spain. The novel also describes the affair of Alfonso VIII with the Jewish Raquel in Toledo. In Lion Feuchtwanger's prologue to the story, he mentions that the ballad was originally written by Alfonso X of Castile in regards to his Great-Grandfather (Alfonso VIII).
Critical reception
A review from Kirkus Reviews described the book thus: "The story now and again bogs down in the trappings of scholarship, but in the main is good reading."[1]
References
- ^ "RAQUEL: The Jewess of Toledo | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. 1 September 1955. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
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