Barcelona's Call neighbourhood, the city's Jewish quarter, has today been the site of a historical rectification, changing the name of a street which had been overlooked for centuries. Carrer de Sant Domènec del Call didn't, in fact, commemorate Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order, but a 1391 pogrom which destroyed the Jewish quarter on his feast day.
The city council has agreed to change the name of the street, round the corner from plaça Sant Jaume where the town hall is located, to instead commemorate rabbi Shlomo ibn Aderet (1235-1310). A student of Nahmanides and Yonah Gerondi, he was a master of Talmud studies and a lender to Jaume I the Conqueror. The name change is a long-standing claim from Jewish organisations.
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The 1931 pogrom had a wider impact on Barcelona, beyond the Jewish quarter, coming as part of a sequence of events that decimated the Medieval Catalan Jewish community. Following the attacks, the community abandoned their cemetery on Montjuïc hill which is documented back to at least the 9th century, one of the proposed etymologies for the very name of the hill.