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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]
Years before the Final Solution began, German Jews clearly faced an ominous future under Hitler. They believed their fate would be similar to that of the Jews in medieval Spain — expulsion from their home country.
6 mar 2013 · In November, Spain's justice minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon announced a plan to give descendants of Spain's original Jewish community - known as Sephardic Jews - a fast-track to a...
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.
14 sie 2021 · The oldest evidence of Jewish presence in Spain is a trilingual inscription in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek on a child’s sarcophagus found in Tarragona and dating from the Roman period (now on...
26 lip 2022 · In late medieval Spain, Jews and Muslims both endured forced conversion and exile. In fact, the edict of 1492 later served as a model for regional charters expelling converted Muslims.
The golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, which coincided with the Middle Ages in Europe, was a period of Muslim rule during which Jews were accepted in society and Jewish religious, cultural, and economic life flourished.
