Incantation
“Stones were thrown; windows were smashed; the gates of the juderia were painted red, the color of the devil’s work. In edicts posted all over the village, the town fathers declared they were sick of the Jews stealing from them, although what had been stolen was never disclosed. Because some Jews were moneylenders, they were blamed for the town’s recent bad fortune. In truth, everyone knew Jews were only permitted to lend money because the church wouldn’t allow one Christian to lend another mone...y. How much money could there be in such dealings? The Jews weren’t rich. In the walled-off section of town where they lived, there were no lime trees, no ivy, no gardens filled with jasmine. In summer, the heat baked the bare earth into bricks. I had seen the children looking through the wall; they wore no shoes. At night, the gate was locked, the way we locked the pens of our chickens and pigs. People came to ask my grandfather, Jose deMadrigal, what he thought of what was happening in the Plaza.MoreLess
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