Spain is on the brink of granting citizenship to the descendants of Jewish families expelled from the country in 1492, in a gesture of reconciliation that has stirred debate in Jewish communities ...

“Recalling the pivotal events of 1492 in Spain compels us to recognize the complexity of patterns of hate and the urgency of addressing them.” Just a few weeks ago, I stood in awe in the ...

The measure aims to correct what Spain's conservative government calls the "historic mistake" of sending Jews into exile in 1492, forcing them to convert to Catholicism or burning them at the stake.

THE expulsion of Spain’s Jews in 1492 was a black mark in a sad history. The land known as Sefarad had once been a refuge for them. Many who refused to convert to Christianity were mugged ...

Only a handful of synagogues are known to have survived long after the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. MADRID (JTA ... put our town on the world map, alongside cities such as Seville.

As night fell recently over the Spanish city of Toledo, Hanukkah candles lit up empty streets outside the medieval El Transito synagogue. Folk songs in Ladino — a blend of Spanish and Hebrew ...

Imaginative company The Telling perform Into the Melting Pot at Otley Courthouse on 25 May, a play about Jewish, Christian & Muslim women in Spain in 1492 by award-winning Clare Norburn & BAFTA ...

Misha Glenny begins a history of Spain in 1492, the year frequently cited as the birth of modern Spain, but behind the national mythology lurks a troubling story of exclusion. Show more Catalonia ...

An estimated 300,000 Sephardic Jews — Sephardic meaning “Spanish” in Hebrew — were driven from Spain in 1492 after Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand issued an Edict of Expulsion.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spain is on the brink of granting citizenship to the descendants of Jewish families expelled from the ...