Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

In the first Spanish and Portuguese colonies, however, Jews were not allowed to openly practice their faith. Secret spirituality One of these conversos was Luis de Carvajal.

Spain has recently been rising up against mass tourism, with protests in places from Barcelona to the Balearics. But country ...

After a millennium of relatively peaceful and prosperous life on Iberian soil, the Jews of Spain were attacked by a wave of mob violence in the summer of 1391. Afterward, thousands of Jews were ...