Table of contents

• Editorial
  • · The sky, the stars and the Jews
• Let's talk about...
  • · 'Light and stars in the Jewish quarter': Jacob ben David Bonjorn, the Jew who interpreted the heavenly bodies
• Recollections and new events
  • · Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights
  • · And exactly eleven years ago...
  • · Activities for 2010
• Museum
  • · The Unavowable Community
  • · New item in the permanent collection
• Library
  • · 'Lunario, giocando con le feste ebraiche' (Children's stories)
  • · 'Wandering Stars. An anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction' (fiction)
  • · 'L'astronomia de Jacob ben David Bonjorn' (essay)
• Girona's Jewish quarter and its international projection
  • · Promotion of the Jewish quarter in the United States
• Miscellanea
  • · Exhibitions and others
  • · Lectures
  • · Conferences
• Ephemera
  • · A 'star' visits the Jewish quarter

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'L'astronomia de Jacob ben David Bonjorn' (essay)

Josep Chabàs i Bergon. Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, 1992.

A precise analytical study, with editions of the original versions in Catalan and Latin, of the work of Jacob ben David Bonjorn, an acclaimed astronomer who worked at the court of King Peter "the Ceremonious" of Aragon. He was born in Girona in about 1330, the son of a lady from a well-bred Girona Jewish background named Ester Caravita. His father was a very learned man who was also the royal astronomer: David Bonjorn de Barri, a Perpignan Jew. With his work Astronomical canons and tables, a calculation of the eclipses of the Moon and of the Sun for the period 1361-1391, Jacob ben David Bonjorn made key contributions to the astronomy of his day. He is today considered as an important source for any in-depth analysis of the science of his time.