description: The Spanish Ballad (originally published as "Die Jüdin von Toledo") is a 1955 novel by German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger. The story focuses on the "Golden Age" of learning in medieval Spain, and also describes the affair of Alfonso VIII with the Jewish Raquel in Toledo.In Lion Feuchtwanger's prologue to the story, he mentions that the ballad was originally written by Alfonso X of Castile in regards of his Great-Grandfather (Alfonso VIII).
language: English
title: The Spanish Ballad
titlecomplete: The Spanish Ballad (Raquel, the Jewess of Toledo)
characters: Rahel la Fermosa, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile, Alfonso VIII of Castile
genres: Historical, Audiobook, German Literature, Classics, Novels, Spain, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Jewish, Romance
ratings_count: 1432
places: Toledo