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7 sie 2023 · The history of Jews in Spain is complex, filled with remarkable achievements but also deep sorrow and exile. Today, the community is once again thriving. As ...
5 sty 2024 · The documentary’s director, Dani Rotstein, has lived in Spain for nine years and now runs a tourism business, Jewish Majorca, offering Jewish history tours on the island in six different...
6 mar 2013 · More than 500 years ago, tens of thousands of Jews fled Spain because of persecution. Now their descendants are being invited to return. Before the infamous Spanish Inquisition of the 15th...
A revolt broke out in Seville after the death of King John I in 1390, leading to a period of disorder that greatly affected the Jewish community of Spain in the coming years. On Ash Wednesday, 1391, Ferrand Martinez, the Archdeacon of Ecija, urged Christians to kill or baptize the Jews of Spain.
17 gru 2019 · With the invasion of the Almohads from North Africa and their imposition of Islam on Jews and Christians in 1147, the Jews fled to Christian Spain. They remained under Christian rule in an increasingly precarious position as the Middle Ages progressed until their expulsion in 1492.
21 wrz 2019 · The clock is ticking down on one of the world’s most unusual immigration proposals—Spain’s offer of citizenship to Jews whose families it expelled more than 500 years ago. In 1492, the year...
The history of the Jews in the current-day Spanish territory stretches back to Biblical times according to Jewish tradition, but the settlement of organised Jewish communities in the Iberian Peninsula possibly traces back to the times after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. [1]
