Judaism Quote by Christopher Lascelles

“Any Jew who remained in Spain after July of 1492 would “incur punishment by death and confiscation of all their belongings.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“In contrast to much of northern Europe, where Jews faced persecution, Spain was a haven. From the eighth century onward, Jews there prospered under…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“On the very day that Columbus finally set forth on his journey that would shake the world, the port of the city he sailed…

— David E. Stannard

“At the same time Beyazid II, the eighth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issued an invitation to the 250,000 Jews banished by Spain to…

— Ayşe Kulin

If there's no future for Jews in Europe, there's no future for Europe.

— Frans Timmermans

There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO…

— Mark Collett

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“By the end of the eleventh century, Jews were being squeezed out of international trade and into occupations forbidden to Jews, Christians, and Muslims—banking,…

— Phyllis Goldstein

It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.

— Roselyne Bosch

“Bernard Lewis, a lifelong student of Jews and Islam and himself a Jew, reflected on the fourteen centuries of Jewish life under Islamic rule,…

— Martin Gilbert

“A historian once speculated on what would happen if a time-traveller from 1945 arrived back in Europe just before the First World War, and…

— Richard J. Evans

“French police and the SS worked together on round-ups in Marseille, classified as ‘moral cleansing’. In all, some 75,000 Jews would be deported from…

— Jonathan Fenby