From 15th-century Iberia.
Alfonso de Zamora.
The only Spanish synagogue not turned into a church.
The scene of centuries of Jewish hopes, achievement, and catastrophe.
Using six medieval manuscripts.
Expensive and burdensome red tape has discouraged applicants.
Descendants of conversos, scattered among the nations.
And the remote crypto-Jewish community that persisted into the 20th century.
It now has a small but flourishing Jewish community.
The scene of centuries of Jewish hopes, achievement, and catastrophe.
Once one of the world’s largest and most important Jewish communities.
The scene of centuries of Jewish hopes, achievement, and catastrophe.
And what it says about the origins of English Jewry.