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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Spanish royal decree ordered expulsion of Jews

On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling Jews from his kingdom.

Jewish expulsion edict

Read a contemporary account of the explusion, originally written in Hebrew by an Italian Jew in 1495.


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