About “Spanische Ballade”
Die Jüdin von Toledo is a 1955 novel by German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger. It centers on the "Golden Age" of Jewish culture in medieval Spain and explores the romantic relationship between Alfonso VIII and a Jewish woman named Raquel in Toledo. The novel includes a prologue in which Feuchtwanger states that the ballad of this story was originally written by Alfonso X of Castile about his great-grandfather, Alfonso VIII. The work is based on historical figures and events, though it is presented as a fictional narrative. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1955