Museu d'Història dels Jueus

The museum occupies the site of Girona's medieval synagogue in the Call, one of Europe's best-preserved Jewish quarters, where twenty-five Jewish families had already settled by 898. By the 13th century the community had built a synagogue here, enlarged in the mid-14th century largely with funds from the Taroç family, and the site became a center of early Spanish Kabbalah, used by scholars including Isaac the Blind and Azriel of Girona. The 1391 massacres left the synagogue desecrated and looted; restored under royal order in 1415, it operated until the 1492 Alhambra Decree forced the Jewish community's expulsion, and the building was sold to canons of Girona Cathedral. It then stood as a private house, the old Casal Ferrer, for nearly five centuries before restoration in the 1980s turned it into today's museum. Eleven rooms now trace six centuries of Jewish life through Hebrew tombstones, silver jewelry, ceramics and a rare ketubah.