spanish inquisition

Colombia’s Day of the Little Candles looks an awful lot like Hanukkah

Many locals believe Dia de las Velitas was inspired by the religious practices of Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition for Latin America. Many scholars are skeptical.

A page out of the Kennicott Bible, pictured at a press conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain on Oct. 14, 2019. (Xunta de Galicia)

Copy of Hebrew Bible created in Spain by Jews returns there after centuries

The whereabouts of the Kennicott Bible had been a mystery for about 300 years until it turned up in Oxford in 1771.

Toni Pinya entering the synagogue of Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 11, 2019. Cnaan Liphshiz

In Mallorca, descendants of Jews forced to hide their faith now run the community

Amid growing interest in the bloody Jewish past of the island near Barcelona, forced converts to Catholicism are returning to Judaism.

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Spanish Jews pray at former synagogue they want back from the Catholic Church

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Spanish festival celebrates the culture and history of the Inquisition’s victims

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Why food makers in Portugal are going kosher

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How Portugal’s Jews Saved Themselves With a Sausage

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How this pristine 15th-century Hebrew Bible survived the Inquisition

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A Yom Kippur tradition in Amsterdam dates back to the invention of electricity

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First Spain-born Liberal rabbi ordained

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