Resumen de Una sentència arbitral sobre qüestions de l'aljama dels jueus de Cervera (1446)
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An arbitration ruling on matters related to Cervera?s Jewish aljama (1446). The article discusses and transcribes two documents from the Segarra Regional Archive in Cervera. Dated 1446, the documents provide information on an arbitration ruling issued in the same year by four Jews from Cervera?s aljama (a Spanish term of Arabic origin used in old official documents to designate self-governing communities of Moors and Jews living under Spanish rule) to resolve various matters related to the aljama itself. The ruling, which was read out by a Christian notary public at the school or synagogue in Cervera?s upper Jewish quarter before the members of the aljama, each of whom had taken up their seat, refers to the taxes to be imposed and the proportional payments to be made by the members of the community. Said taxes and payments were needed to cover various expenses, such as the messages that had recently been sent to the city of Valencia, the annual election of secretaries and the subsequent election of councillors, and other expenses that had been incurred previously.
On the basis of the transcribed documents, it can be deduced that Cervera?s aljama comprised around 47 families at the time in question. A list of the heads of those families appears at the end of the article.
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Hom comenta i transcriu dos documents de l?any 1446 procedents de l?Arxiu Comarcal de la Segarra, situat a Cervera, que donen informació sobre una sentència arbitral dictada aquell any per quatre jueus de l?aljama cerverina per tal de resoldre diverses qüestions relacionades amb l?esmentada aljama. La sentència, que fou llegida per un notari cristià a l?escola o sinagoga del call superior de Cervera davant els membres de l?aljama, cada un dels quals ocupava el seu seient, fa referència a les talles o repartiments efectuats entre els membres de l?aljama per tal de poder pagar proporcionalment les despeses ocasionades per unes missatgeries que recentment havien estat fetes a la ciutat de València, les despeses fetes per l?aljama abans de les esmentades anteriorment i, finalment, l?elecció anual de secretaris i la posterior elecció de consellers.
A partir de la documentació transcrita, podem deduir que, en aquell temps, l?aljama cerverina estava formada per unes quaranta-set famílies. Al final de l?article, s?inclou la nòmina dels caps de casa d?aquestes famílies.
