…I CLOSE-UP I ECHOES of the BIG BANG! Jews were expelled from Spain 500 years ago. The shock waves still reverberate. Special to The Jewish News Illustrations by Tim Lee testament to the sor- row of exile lies at the base of the Statue of Liberty. It tells of the har- bor where tempest-tossed refugees could find solace, the harbor that would welcome the unwanted, the persecuted, the tormented. Emma Lazarus, a Sephardi, may have had her fa...…
…can Jews know little about. And new thinking among scholars is reevaluating the effects wrought by the events of 1492. Jews Move East priest who witnessed the expulsion de- scribed it this way: "In the first week of July, the Jews took the hardship of the road upon themselves and left the lands of their birth . . . And they went along the roads and through the fields with great travail and misfortune, some falling, others rising, some dying,...…
…heritage who lived in Safed dur- ing the 1500s. (Ashkenazim are Jews from Central and Eastern Europe.) Ha'ari taught that the vessels containing the divine light at the beginning of creation had shat- tered. Sparks of divine light became mixed with evil as they fell to earth. The mystics saw their task as gathering the sparks back to their source, which would bring on the messianic age and end the exile. They called this process tikkun olam, r...…
…Journey Of The Conversos ir he first Jews who migrated to the Neth- erlands in the early 1500s, then ruled by Spain, were conversos, Jews who had bowed to the dic- tates of Ferdinand and Isabella and, with varying degrees of fidelity, adopted Catholicism. The Christians referred to the conver- sos by the pejorative term "Mar- ranos." When the Netherlands became free of Spain in the 1600s, conver- sos began streaming into Amster- dam. Once th...…
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