The Shaltiel Manuscripts

About the Book

The Shaltiel Manuscripts is a unique and unprecedented presentation of original and, mostly, unpublished before, documents that shades light on Jewish life in medieval Spain via the story of the Shealtiels, Author, editor and historian, Moshe Shaltiel Gracian, brings over twenty years of research and manuscripts hunting in numerous archives and libraries he conducted in Spain, to light, for the first time.

These ancient and dusty documents he, and his team of historian researchers and translators, discovered, edited and translated from Latin, Catalonian Spanish and German brings to life the unusual life of the proud family of the Jewish Princes of Barcelona, the descendents of the Davidic Babylonian Exilarchs.

About the Author

Moshe Shaltiel-Gracian was born in Israel. He studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and graduated with a Law degree.

Over the past twenty years he has investigated archives, manuscripts, book and academic papers in Greece, Israel, Spain, Turkey, the United States and elsewhere.

He has traced the history of his family from the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem through their sojourn in ancient Babylon and their medieval prominence in Catalunya, to modern times.

He has documented the roots of his family and their links with other medieval Jewish families including the Graziani, Benveniste, Charlap, Bar Sheshet and Hen.

He has written a novel and a historical account placing the Shealtiel family within the Sepharadic experience.