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Suddenly an old, gray-bearded, stately man appeared before him, saying: "Arise! Waste no time. Hurry to the synagogue and quickly put the Sifrei Torah inside their cases. But say not a word to anyone!"
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To my understanding, the place you're referring to is Zaragoza and not Saragossa...
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Can you tell me in which communities Purim Saragossa is still observed? What are the customs?
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Purim Saragossa is celebrated by Jews whose ancestors were from Saragossa, by reading a "Megillah" in which they documented the entire chain of events. I do not know of a "Saragossa community", so it seems that it is celebrated privately by these Jews together with their families, and other Saragossa émigrés.
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This is a lovely story, but unless you give more information (date, name of the king, etc.) it sounds like just another legend...
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In the Megillah (scroll) that the descendants of the Jews of Saragossa read, all the details of the story are included. The story took place in the year 1420, in the city Saragossa, the capital of Aragon – now part of Spain, then its own country – which was under the rule of a king referred to as Saragonssus (apparently a generic name referring to any ruler of the Kingdom of Aragon) better known as Alfonso V.
This holiday is celebrated by the descendants of the Jews of the Saragossan community of old. A personal friend of mine living in Istanbul recently wrote an article with photos of a family in his community which continues this custom to this very day, reading from an ancient scroll passed down in in their extended family.
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