The Open court . 6g8Erwig persecuted them, while Egiza banished them upon the accu-sation of having entered into league with the Saracens of (in 710) recalled them. Under his successor, Rodrigo, theSaracens invaded Spain after the famous battle of Xeres de laFrontera in 711. The Jews greeted the Arabs as their deliverers,who again treated them kindly. In the reign of Abderahman III.(912-961) Cordova became eminent for industry and learning, andthe Jews shared largely in the splendor and prosperity of theArabs. Less peaceful times, however, the Jews enjoyed in theChristian states
The Open court . 6g8Erwig persecuted them, while Egiza banished them upon the accu-sation of having entered into league with the Saracens of (in 710) recalled them. Under his successor, Rodrigo, theSaracens invaded Spain after the famous battle of Xeres de laFrontera in 711. The Jews greeted the Arabs as their deliverers,who again treated them kindly. In the reign of Abderahman III.(912-961) Cordova became eminent for industry and learning, andthe Jews shared largely in the splendor and prosperity of theArabs. Less peaceful times, however, the Jews enjoyed in theChristian states of the peninsula. From the southern part of Spain the Jews had emigrated toCastile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, where they soon very prosperous. Their synagogues and schools increased,and, as formerly in the east by the resA galutha or head of thecaptivity, so were they now governed by the rabbino mayor, a Jew,usually in favor at court, and appointed by the^king. Every kind 338 THE OPEN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JEWS. 339 of office was open to them, and they often served in the army. Butsoon the populace, stirred up by the inferior clergy, gave vent totheir envy, which manifested itself first by the usual accusations ofsacrilege and the murder of Christian children, but soon broke outinto open rage and acts of violence. Amid the general prosperityof the Jewish nation a massacre took place at Toledo in 1212, andin 1213 the Council of Zamora, in Leon, vehemently demandedthe revival and enforcement of the ancient laws against the general, we may say that the kings of Castile and Aragon, withvery few exceptions, stoutly befriended the Jews during the four
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