Kesher Talk

1492 - Expulsion of Jews set in motion. On this day, 511 years ago, King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling Jews from his kingdom. An Italian Jew wrote about it several years later, describing enormous acts of cruelty and betrayal by the kingdoms of Portugal, Tunis, Genoa, and mercenary ships hired to take them out of Spain. Naples and Turkey, however, took them in. (So did the Netherlands, which are not mentioned in this article from 1495.)

(via Jurist law site's Paper Chase)

posted by Judith @ 3/31/2003 01:06:39 PM