CHAPTER 16: THE KOSHER BUTCHERY - RITUAL SLAUGHTER

CHAPTER 16: THE KOSHER BUTCHERY - RITUAL SLAUGHTERU Series: Medieval Jewish Quarter of Zaragoza Narrator: Ibn Gabirol Direction and Production: Javier Bona López SUMMARY Step into one of the most sacred and everyday spaces of the medieval Jewish quarter of Zaragoza: the kosher butchery. Located next to the Ferriza Gate and the Castle of the Jews, this semicircular building housed nine shops where one of the fundamental laws of Judaism was materialized day after day: kashrut. Discover the role of the shojet, the rabbi of the slaughter, a Torah scholar who performed ritual slaughter with reverence and precision. Meet the bodeq, the inspector who examined entrails to guarantee the purity of the meat. Immerse yourself in the smells, colors, and sounds of this place where life and death met every day, where spilled blood was not desecration but sanctification. Also explore the extraordinary case of Lorenzo de Peñaflor, a Christian butcher hired in 1401 to work in the Jewish butchery, testimony to the complex coexistence between cultures in medieval Zaragoza. A chapter that transforms the mundane into the sacred, where every act of eating became an act of worship. Zakhor. Remember. If you enjoyed this chapter, I invite you to share it and spread it. You can also listen to our other series about the medieval Jewish quarters of Calatayud, Tarazona, and Híjar on the three main podcasting platforms. Zakhor. Remember. Shalom. CREDITS AND SOURCES Narrator: Ibn Gabirol Direction and Production: Javier Bona López Advisory: Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader (Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza) Main Sources: 1 Asunción Blasco Martínez. La Judería de Zaragoza en el siglo XIV. Instituto Fernando el Católico (IFC), 1988. 2 Asunción Blasco Martínez. "Significado del término matar en el aragonés medieval: un carnicero cristiano contratado para «matar et tallar» carne en la aljama de judíos de Zaragoza en 1401". AFA-XLII-XLIII, pp. 259-263. 3 Asunción Blasco Martínez. "El título «rabí» en la comunidad judía medieval aragonesa". Article on the roles and functions of rabbis in Aragonese aljamas. 4 Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader. La judería de Zaragoza: Centro de la vida económica y social. Rolde de Estudios Aragoneses. 5 Miguel Ángel Motis-Dolader, Ana Ruiz-Varona, Lourdes Pérez-López. "Urban Morphology and Functional Hierarchy of the Jewish Quarter of Zaragoza (Spain) at the End of the Fifteenth Century". Journal of Urban History, 2023. 6 Ángel Canellas López. La Judería Zaragozana. Cuadernos de Zaragoza, n.º 2, 1974. 7 Asunción Blasco Martínez & Susana Lozano Gracia. La Judería de Zaragoza - Paso a Paso. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, 2023. 8 Sefarad Aragón. La desaparecida judería de Zaragoza. Self-published, 2010. 9 Leopoldo Torres Balbás. Works on the Jewish quarter of Zaragoza and its baths. 10 Patrimonio Cultural de Aragón. Institutional records. 11 Guía de la Judería de Zaragoza. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza. 12 Archivo Municipal de Zaragoza (AMZ). Historical plans. 13 Jesús Óscar Sanagustín Palomar. Comunidades, oficios y élites judías aragonesas a comienzos de la Baja Edad Media: una época de coexistencia (1270-1342). Master's Thesis in Research and Advanced Studies in History. Universidad de Zaragoza, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, 2022. Director: Germán Navarro Espinach. 14 Joseph Pérez. Los judíos en España. Marcial Pons Historia, 2005. 15 Archivo Histórico de Protocolos de Zaragoza (AHPZ). Notarial protocols from the 14th and 15th centuries. 16 Günnar Tilander. Unknown document. (Cited in note 11 of Asunción Blasco Martínez's article). 17 M. Serrano y Sanz. Orígenes de la dominación española en América. (Cited in note 25 of Asunción Blasco Martínez's article). 18 Rafael Andolz. Diccionario aragonés-castellano. Zaragoza, 1977; Jerónimo Borao: Diccionario de voces aragonesas, precedido de una introducción filológico-histórica. Zaragoza, 1859. 19 Vicente Foz y Ponz. Segunda parte del Diccionario del habla vulgar aragonesa. (Cited in Asunción Blasco Martínez's article). 20 Domino Carolo de Fresne Ducange. Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis. Graz (Austria), 1954; and J. F. Niermeyer, Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus. Leiden, 1976. © Series: Medieval Jewish Quarter of Zaragoza Production: Javier Bona López