“A tombstone from the Jewish cemetery of Montjuic, made of Montjuic stone in the year 1306. The epitaph reads:
Funerary stele of Rachel, daughter of the Rabbi Abraham Ha Levi, may her Rock and her Saviour protect her. She passed away in the year 5066 of the Creation.
The name Montjuic comes from mans judaicus, the place name used in medieval times for the mountain that held the cemetery where Jews living in Barcelona were laid to rest. Discovered in 1945 on the north-east face of the massif. and located beneath the castle, it is known to have been used from the 9th Century onwards and until the destruction of the Jewish quarter of Barcelona at the end of the 14th Century. At that time, many tombstones, like Rachel’s -which comes from a collection in the palace of the Marquis of Lyon, in Montcada street, were pillaged and used as building material.”