Hadar Cohen explains how the Jewish tradition of Baqashot, a devotional music service, survived following the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal, and continued to be practiced amongst communities in Morocco and Syria.
Queen Letizia inaugurated this Monday at the University of Granada the Annual Meeting of Directors of the Cervantes Institute, in which the heads of the organisation in Spain and around the world will establish strategies for the future to disseminate culture in Spanish and the international teaching of our language.
Over 400 years ago, long before Woodrow Wilson or Vladimir Lenin, the Christian humanist Bartolomé de Las Casas, known as the “Defender of the Indians,” developed a theory of the right of nations to self-determination that can be applied to many other countries today, including Ukraine.
Christopher Columbus, Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristóbal Colón, (born between August 26 and October 31?, 1451, Genoa [Italy] died May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain), master navigator and admiral whose four transatlantic voyages (1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04) opened the way for European exploration, exploitation, and colonization of the Americas. He has long been called the “discoverer” of the New World, although Vikings such as Leif Eriksson had visited North America five centuries earlier. Columbus made his transatlantic voyages under the sponsorship of Ferdinand II and Isabella I, the Catholic Monarchs of Aragon, Castile, and Leon in Spain. He was at first