Abstract
This article deals with less familiar theme - the status of Jewish doctors and pharmacists in the history of pharmacy from the 7th century AD to the early 20th century. They have played an important role in the history of the Iberian Peninsula - initially under Muslim and after the Reconquista in 1492 under Christian rule.
Most of them chose assimilation into the surrounding milieu, some of them escaped before the Christian Inquisition. Despite persecution, it was the golden age of Jewish medicine and pharmacy.
During the Frankish empire we find them only rare mentions - Jews have been isolated in the area of urban Jewish ghettos. Jewish doctors and pharmacists found better employment at first in some Protestant countries (England, Holland).
In the Germany and Central Europe gained ground at the end of the 19th century. A number of prominent scientists, especially from Eastern Europe at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries found a solution in immigration to the US before growing anti-Semitism.