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The Spanish Ballad

by Lion Feuchtwanger · 1954

Gesammelte Werke in Einzelbänden / Lion Feuchtwanger seriesbook 15

The Spanish Ballad (originally published as "Die Judin von Toledo") is a 1955 novel by German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger. The story focuses on the "Golden Age" of learning in medieval Spain, and also describes the affair of Alfonso VIII with the Jewish Raquel in Toledo.

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In Lion Feuchtwanger's prologue to the story, he mentions that the ballad was originally written by Alfonso X of Castile in regards of his Great-Grandfather (Alfonso VIII).

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