Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition? This tale became ...

Following the new scientific study by the University of Granada revealing the final resting place of Christopher Columbus, it has been concluded that Christopher Columbus was Spanish and Jewish. The ...

The City of Toledo, Spain, has opened an advanced studies of Spanish Jewry course for 50 tour guides. The program, which is the city’s first initiative of its kind, began on Oct. 14 and will offer two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An auto-da-fé − a public punishment for heretics − in San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico. Museo Nacional de Arte via ...

(The Conversation) — Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world. (The Conversation) — Every few years ...