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1985–present. Linet Mor Menashe ( Turkish: Linet Menaşi, Hebrew: לינט מנשה, born 5 March 1975 [1]) is an Israeli-born Turkish-Jewish singer, best known for her performances of arabesque and pop music. She is well known in Turkey, Israel, and the Middle East, mostly thanks to her grasp over multiple languages (specifically Turkish ...
Muhammad XII was the son of Abu l-Hasan Ali, Sultan of the Emirate of Granada whom he succeeded in 1482, [2] as a result of both court intrigue and unrest amongst the population at large. [3] Muhammad XII soon sought to gain prestige by invading Castile, but was taken prisoner at Lucena in 1483. [2] Muhammad's father was then restored as ruler ...
Rabbi David Abraham Jessurun Cardozo (March 29, 1896 – August 31, 1972) was a Dutch -born American Sephardic Rabbi who served as assistant minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City, the oldest synagogue in the United States and was the first rabbi to conduct High Holidays services in Spain since the Alhambra Decree of ...
The Alhambra (from Arabic الْحَمْرَاء = Al-Ħamrā', literally "the red one"; the complete name was الْقَلْعَةُ ٱلْحَمْرَاءُ = al-Qal'at al-Ħamrā' = "the red fortress") is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish rulers of Granada in southern Spain (known as Al-Andalus when the fortress was constructed during the mid 14th century), occupying a hilly ...
Levi ibn Habib (c. 1480 – c. 1545), also known by the acronym HaRaLBaCh, was Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem from 1525 until his death. Under King Manuel of Portugal , and when about seventeen, he was compelled to submit to baptism , but at the first opportunity fled to Salonica , where he could follow the dictates of his conscience in safety.
The Jewish Archive ( Archivo Judaico) was the name given to a collection of documents compiled by the regime of Francisco Franco in Spain during the Second World War. In accordance with instructions of the Directorate of General Security ( Dirección General de Seguridad, DGS) the provincial governors of Spain assembled records of all Jews who ...
As a result of the Alhambra Decree of 1492, the remaining practising Jews in Castile and Aragon were forced to convert to Catholicism (thus becoming 'New Christians' who faced discrimination under the limpieza de sangre system) whereas those who continued to practise Judaism (c. 100,000–200,000) were expelled, creating diaspora communities.
