Comunitat Israelita de Barcelona (Israelite Community of Barcelona)

Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, several waves of Jewish immigration arrived in Barcelona. This growing population led to the birth of the Comunidad Israelita de Barcelona in December 1918. The first president was a member of the German community, Mr. Edmundo Metzger (Z “L). The use of the word “Israelita”, and not “Judía”, already reflects the concern of the founders to use a word with a negative charge that prevailed in the collective imagination, since it continued to see the Jews as a deicidal community.