Ithimba labavubukuli edolobheni lase-Spain i-Utrera lithole ibandla lamaJuda leminyaka engamakhulu angu-14 phakathi endaweni yokucima ukoma yasebusuku.
Leli bandla elisenkabeni yezwe laliyindawo enethonya yokukhuleka. Kodwa ngasekupheleni kwenkathi ephakathi yase-Spain, amaJuda namaSulumane bakhuthazelela ukuguqulwa okuphoqelelwe nokudingiswa.
Phakathi nalesi sikhathi sobumnyama nenzondo, amakhosi angamaKatolika uFerdinand no-Isabella basayina isimemezelo sabo somthetho i-Alhambra ngoMasingana ngo-1492 baxosha amaJuda e-Spain.
Lo mbhalo wanikeza amaJuda ase-Spain izinyanga ezine zokukhetha phakathi kokulahla inkolo yawo noma ukushiya izwe namakhaya abo asebehlale kuwo iminyaka engaphezu kweyinkulungwane, ngokusho kochungechunge lwamuva nje lwe-Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) yaseMelika.
Leli bandla lase-Utrera labe seliguqulwa laba isibhedlela sebandla. Ngokulandelayo laba isikole ngaphambi kokuthi libe indawo yokucima ukoma yasebusuku eyintandokazi yawo wonke umuntu ngemuva kweminyaka engamakhulu.
“Siqinisekile ukuthi simi phezu kwebandla lasendulo. Kuze kube manje kunezakhiwo ezinjalo ezine kuphela kulo lonke elase-Spain: ezimbili e-Toledo, esisodwa e-Segovia nesisodwa e-Córdoba,” kusho iMeya yase-Utrera uJosé María Villalobos, kubika i-The Times.
“Lesi isakhiwo esiyingqayizivele ebesiyingxenye ye-Utrera futhi siyingxenye yempilo yezakhamizi zakhona ezihlale lapha iminyaka engu-700 futhi sisekhona nanamhlanje.”
Ithimba laqala ukufuna le ndawo ngemuva kokuthi lithole umkhondo wokuba khona kwaleli bandla owatholwa umfundisi ophinde abe isazi-mlando uRodrigo Caro.
Umholi weqembu uMiguel Angel de Dios uthe uphenyo lusaqhubeka.
“Ukubaluleka kwaleli bandla akuphathelene kangako ngobukhulu balo kodwa iqiniso esilibonile lonke ukuthi leli bandla lihlanganisa indlu yamaJuda, exhunywe ethempelini, isikole kanye nendawo yezihambi evame kakhulu kulawa maqoqo lapho abathembekile abalaliswa khona,” esho.
UDe Dios wengeze ngokuthi wonke umuntu edolobheni ahlanganyele nabo lapha.
Luhlanganiswe nguDylan Bettencourt
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