by Lion Feuchtwanger · Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596119035
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«Die Jüdin von Toledo» is the historical novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (495 pages, in German).
The novel, set in twelfth-century Toledo, focuses on the relationship between Alfonso VIII of Castile and Raquel, a young Jewish woman, during the Reconquista. Feuchtwanger describes medieval Spain as a space of encounter and conflict between Christians, Muslims and Jews, with love and power marked by political and religious tensions.
This edition is from 1993 and belongs to the Feuchtwanger GW in Einzelbänden collection, where it is volume 9.
For readers of historical fiction and medieval Spain, interested in the reign of Alfonso VIII and the encounter between cultures on the Iberian peninsula.
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht.
