Jewish history caught in independence tug-of-war —

Published for Jewish Renaissance Journal After a 400-year vacuum, Judaism has reappeared on the Iberian Peninsula in unexpected ways. Spanish institutions have proudly united medieval Sephardi identity with a modern Spanish identity. Meanwhile, Catalan institutions recently asserted that their medieval Jewish communities had a separate Catalan identity. In the 1990s the Spanish government […]

Jewish history caught in independence tug-of-war —