La pequeña comunidad hebrea de La Línea (1856-1936)

Abstract

From the second half of the nineteenth century a few Hebrew families from Gibraltar or from North Africa settled on La Linea, a border town next to the British colony of Gibraltar. This Hebrew presence intensified after the Spanish-Moroccan war of 1859, when there was a gradual migratory movement of Jews from North Africa to Spain. Many of them remained on the Spanish cities of Africa, but a part of them crossed the Strait and settled in the British colony of Gibraltar and also in this border city of La Linea where some families already lived. These Hebrews formed a small community whose presence lasted until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War when most of the Hebrew community stablished in La Linea left the city.