Sol Hachuel was a Moroccan Jewish heroine who was publicly decapitated when she was 17 years old.
14 Facts About Sol Hachuel
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Sol Hachuel's sacrifice served as an inspiration to painters and writers.
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Sol Hachuel's story was the subject of a song by Francoise Atlan on the CD Romances Sefardies.
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Some scholars say that Dejodencq was inspired by the story of Sol Hachuel Hacueul, but the artist's friend and biographer, Gabriel Seailles, states explicitly, in more than one book, that Dehodencq was an eye-witness to the execution he depicted, which took place in Tangiers.
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Sol Hachuel was born in 1817 in Morocco, to Chaim and Simcha Sol Hachuel, and had one older brother.
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Sol Hachuel conducted a study group in his home, which helped Sol form and maintain her own belief in Judaism.
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Sol Hachuel's parents appealed to the Spanish vice-consul, Don Jose Rico, for help.
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Sol Hachuel did what he could to free the girl, but his efforts were unsuccessful.
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The Qadi summoned the Jewish sages of Fez and told them that unless Sol Hachuel converted, she would be beheaded and the community punished.
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Sol Hachuel was convicted and sentenced to death, and the qadi ruled that her father would bear the cost of her burial.
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The sultan's son, astonished by Sol Hachuel's beauty, tried to convince her to convert to Islam.
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Apparently the sultan instructed the executioner to wound Sol Hachuel first, hoping that the sight of her own blood would frighten her into accepting conversion.
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Sol Hachuel's grave became a place of pilgrimage for both Jews and Muslims alike.
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Sol Hachuel's headstone has inscriptions in both Hebrew and French.