Sobre la reorganización de la aljama de los judios de Lérida (1400-1408)

Abstract

Two documents, executed by the king Martin I of Aragon in 1400 and 1408 in favour of the Jewish aljama of Lerida, are analysed in this article. Both documents contain local regulations that exclusively concern the Jewish community. The chapters executed by the monarch, by request of the representatives of the aljama, are designed to rebuild the aljama that was destroyed, both physically and as an institu­tion, after the assault of 1391. The most relevant aspects of these privileged rules refer to the reconstruction and the repeopling process of the urban space, the impulse to the economy, the reformation of the Administration, and the attainment of temporary fiscal exemptions.