Spain, three large symbols are painted in the middle of the narrow street: a menorah, a Magen David and a chai. They mark the entrance to the Judería, Toledo’s Jewish Quarter, where more than ...

The best view of Spain’s ancient capital Toledo is from ... Franciscan monastery and church stands in the heart of the Jewish Quarter and features Gothic and Mudejar architecture, a two-level ...

and he immortalized Toledo in many of his most famous works, with a museum dedicated to him and other Spanish painters found ...

“Even people from Segovia never learned about the Jewish quarter,” Rueda said. “Now people want to know their history.” Spain’s relationship ... s famed city of Toledo.

The exterior of what was once the El Transito Synagogue in Toledo, Spain founded in the 1300s (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) The year 1492 is imprinted in many a Jewish brain. For the rest of ...

For example, in Hervas, in western Spain, a lecture on “Jewish Urbanistic Heritage,” is held. In Toledo, in the El Transisto ... the rebuilding of its Jewish quarter, or Call, which means ...

But not a single employee of Toledo's Sephardic Museum is actually Jewish ... Jews — up to a quarter of the Spanish population — had to convert to Catholicism or flee Spain, or were killed ...

In Toledo I visited the 14th-century ... and Moorish designs representing the mix of Jewish and Arab traditions that coexisted in Spain during the Middle Ages can be seen in this synagogue.

To celebrate European Jewish Heritage Day, kids in Toledo, Spain attended a matzah-baking class — although Passover is half a year away. TOLEDO, Spain, Sept. 7 (JTA) — It doesn’t look like ...