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Hanukkah 1967 and today: The rise and decline of Spain

It was only in 1967 that living and praying openly as Jews as a community was finally officially permitted in Spain. Now, ...
Yahoo

Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

An auto-da-fé − a public punishment for heretics − in San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico. Museo Nacional de Arte via Wikimedia Commons Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: ...
The Washington Post

Spain's Catalonia Rediscovering Its Jewish Past

BARCELONA -- Spain's Catalonia region suffered some of the most virulent anti-Semitism of the Middle Ages. Most Jews were driven out nearly a century before the country expelled the others in 1492. In ...
Times Union

Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Flora Cassen, Washington University in St. Louis and Ronnie Perelis, Yeshiva ...
Religion News Service

Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

(The Conversation) — Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world. (The Conversation) — Every few years ...