Having already visited several sites associated with Jewish history in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Europe, I decided to embark on a journey to the Andalusia and ...

Archaeologists have found one of the oldest artifacts of Jewish culture on the Iberian Peninsula at an excavation site in the south of Portugal, close to the city of Silves (Algarve). On a marble ...

A major new tool can help Brazilians learn about their possible Iberian Jewish origins: the "Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames," a 528-page tome featuring some 17,000 surnames of Sephardic Jewish ...

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An hour northwest of Madrid, on the dusty road to Valladolid, lies one of the most quintessentially Spanish cities: Segovia. Regal and timeless, Segovia boasts historical grandeur well out of ...

Before this building in Spain was a nightclub, it was a hospital, a church, and a school. But archaeologists have recently determined that, originally, the structure was a medieval Jewish synagogue — ...

Question: Where is the largest and arguably the most impressive synagogue on the Iberian Peninsula? Answer: Not where you’d think. The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue, it turns out, is in Porto, one of ...

Hold the history book presses. The Moorish invasion of Spain was never completely repelled, a new genetic analysis reveals. As many as one in 10 men from Spain and Portugal still carry genetic ...

The American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR), the oldest organization of Judaica scholars in North America, has awarded its annual Salo Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish studies ...

The Jewish-Latin musical connection has been explored by musicians in a variety of fascinating ways — in the '50s by the so-called mamboniks, or in the early 2000s by Hip Hop Hoodios, for example. But ...

Archaeologists of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena found one of the oldest archaeological evidence so far of Jewish Culture on the Iberian Peninsula at an excavation site in the south of ...