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.
The 624th anniversary of a massacre.
Jews who view themselves as neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardi.
And the current state of Jewish life there.
Last year saw a record number of Jews leaving France for Israel; in light of recent events, it seems that many more will leave this. . .
By granting citizenship to Jews who trace their origins to pre-expulsion Spain, the country has acknowledged, but cannot rectify, a sin of world-historical proportions.
Four hundred years after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, a British travel writer was able to discover the true, secret identity of a. . .
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