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The Jewess of Toledo
1851 tragedy by Franz Grillparzer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Jewess of Toledo (German: Die Jüdin von Toledo) is a play by Franz Grillparzer. Written in 1851, it was first performed in Prague in 1872, after Grillparzer's death.
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The play is based on the love affair between King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Rahel la Fermosa, a Jewish woman.
In 1919 the play was turned into a German silent film The Jewess of Toledo directed by Otto Kreisler
La Historia de Fermosa by Abraham S. Marrache covers the same story, but in the form of a historical novel.[1]
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