Oy, Olé! The wonders of Jewish Spain

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The many-centuries-long saga of the Sephardim, the Jews of Sepharad (as they called the Iberian Peninsula) reaches back to Roman Hispania (and there are suggestions there might have been trade links dating back even to Old Testament times). As elsewhere in Europe, despite building a magnificent heritage here, the road for Spanish Jews has not always been smooth - most infamously their persecution and ultimate mass expulsion in 1492 by rulers Ferdinand and Isabella. But... keep reading