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The Sarajevo Haggadah has survived many close calls with destruction. Historians believe that it was taken out of the Iberian Peninsula by Jews who were expelled by the Alhambra Decree in 1492. Notes in the margins of the Haggadah indicate that it surfaced in Italy in the 16th century.
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.
The history of the Jews in Latin America began with conversos who joined the Spanish and Portuguese expeditions to the continents. The Alhambra Decree of 1492 led to the mass conversion of Spain's Jews to Catholicism and the expulsion of those who refused to do so. However, the vast majority of conversos never made it to the New World and ...
The Alhambra Decree stood in stark contrast to the policy of La Convivencia ("Coexistence"), describing the situation in Spanish history from about 711 to 1492, when Jews, Muslims, and Catholics in Spain lived in relative peace together within the different kingdoms. The phase often refers to the interplay of cultural ideas between the three ...
The Catholic Monarchs [a] [b] were Queen Isabella I of Castile ( r. 1474–1504) [1] and King Ferdinand II of Aragon ( r. 1479–1516 ), whose marriage and joint rule marked the de facto unification of Spain. [2] They were both from the House of Trastámara and were second cousins, being both descended from John I of Castile; to remove the ...
Oct 19, 2021 · The Alhambra Decree was declared null and unlawful by military dictator Francisco Franco’s fascist administration in 1968. King Juan Carlos legally repealed his ancestors’ edict in 1992, five hundred years after it was issued, and his government awarded citizenship to the descendants of Jews banished by the decree in 2014, just months ...
The Alhambra Decree, issued in January 1492, gave the choice between expulsion, conversion or death. It was among the few expulsion orders that allowed conversion as an alternative and is used as a proof of the religious, not racial, element of the measure.
