Being a Jew Was a Class Citizenship

For most of these jews, second class citizenship represented a major advance in visigothic spain. To bea class citizen was a far better thing than not to be a citizen at all. For example, shortly before the moslem conquest in seven 11. This was under christian rule in spain. The jews had seen their children rem oved from them and forcibly converted to christianity,. They have themselves been enslaved in the developing islamic societies of the classical and mediaeval periods.