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History of a tragedy : the expulsion of the Jews from Spain
He explores the Jewish community's role in creating and sustaining the vibrant cultural, political, and economic world of medieval Spain and how growing religious intolerance, a pervasive resentment ...
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Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop them from describing the Americas
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...
Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...
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Saint Fernando and the Fall of Córdoba: Spain’s Turning Point
In 1236, Córdoba - the once-glorious capital of Muslim Spain - fell to the forces of King Fernando III of León-Castile. This ...