Granada Jewish Tours

20/05/2022

18/05/2022

Look out for this on general release very soon..

Photo: Provided. Six hundred years after Judaism was crushed and vanished from Majorca, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean, a …

11/05/2022

Olé Marilita!!!

Happy to be back ❤️ !

15/04/2022

Happy Pesach Everyone! Peace & Plenty to you all!

01/04/2022

Shout out to our NYC friends!

Xueta Island explores the fascinating legacy of the Xuetas: a unique group of families on the Balearic island of Majorca who is believed to be descendants of the island’s Inquisition-era Jewish population. A riveting quest to unearth and document Majorca’s rich and tragic Jewish history and an i...

01/03/2022

Super interesting..

We recommend you the conference "The Histories of Ibn Gabirol: Jews, Muslims and Christians in Eleventh-Century al-Andalus - New Perspectives and Directions" that will take place on March 14, 15:00 CET at Tel Aviv University. This event is organized to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Shlomo Ibn Gabirol, and can be joined online by using the following Zoom link:

https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/82917451854

Lecturers:

- Miriam Shefer-Moshenson (Tel Aviv University)
- Youval Rotman (Tel Aviv University)
- Nurit Tsafrir (Tel Aviv University)
- Camilla Adang (Tel Aviv University)
- Janina Safran (Penn State University)
- David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University)
- Noah Geber (Tel Aviv University)
- Sonia Zakrzewski (University of Southhampton)
- Micha Perry (University of Haifa)
- Amir Ashur (Tel Aviv University)
- Moshe Yagur (Bar Ilan University)
- Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University)
- David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University)
- Camilla Adang (Tel Aviv University)

27/10/2021

Highly recommended!

Some Catholics on the Spanish island of Mallorca have been discriminated against for centuries because their surnames have a connection

27/10/2021

Granada Jewish Tours has welcomed many successful applicants of this admirable and very welcome program, but has also met & spoken with many frustrated families that are, after many months and sometimes years, still awaiting news. We hope that the Spanish Government honours it's offer, and expedites all remaining and future applications in a timely & honest manner.

Rally-goers and elected officials demanded to know why an Inquisition reparations initiative has seemingly been put on hold.

25/10/2021

A Group of Chinese Ladies booked a Jewish Tour by accident...did it anyway :)

25/10/2021

Literally like an Indiana Jones story..

A British aristocrat looking for the Ark of the Covenant launched history's most peculiar archaeological dig—and set off a crisis in the Middle East

21/10/2021

The Texas town’s school board is “at a crossroads” with Texas’s new SB3, Jake Berman tells Rolling Stone. “If I were the superintendent, I would say ‘We’re not going t…

21/10/2021

Even more reason to stop celebrating Columbus..

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/20/vikings-settled-north-america-1000-years-ago-solar-storm

Analysis of wood from timber-framed buildings in Newfoundland shows Norse-built settlement 471 years before Columbus

19/10/2021

A fantastic morning with Rabbi Bill & his wife - all the way from L.A.! Shalom, Godspeed & happy travels folks!

12/10/2021

Very interesting h/t Dani Rotstein.

A translation of colonial Spanish history into biblical Hebrew shows the trauma of 1492 through Jewish eyes

11/10/2021

A post by Humans of JNF

Oskar Schindler passed away 48 years ago yesterday.

Pictured here are survivors saved by Schindler, and people from the film "Schindler's List", standing next to his grave in Jerusalem.

He was responsible for saving the lives of some 1,200 Jews and was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1993.

Today, there are more than 8,000 living descendants of the Jews saved by Oskar Schindler. ✡️




📷: Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem American Society for Yad Vashem

11/10/2021

Hmm. What's missing?

From Ferdinand III to 1981, the Spanish heraldic symbol has undergone multiple variations. Here is a summary of the history of the Spanish coat of arms.

11/10/2021

There's a good argument that 'Moorish' should also include all things Jewish - after all many "Moors" were neither Arab or of Muslim faith - many were (extremely) liberal Sephardic Jews & North African Berber.

Discover the influence of Al-Andalus through the great architectural monuments of a powerful civilisation of more than 700 years.

11/10/2021

Look! Actual History!

Many people in the United States and Latin America have grown up celebrating the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage. But was he an intrepid explorer who brought two worlds together or a ruthless exploiter who brought colonialism and slavery? And did he even discover America at all? Alex Ge...

10/10/2021

Under cobblestone streets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, diggers have uncovered new hiding spots in underground sewers where some Jews managed to flee from N**i occupying forces during World War Two.

10/09/2021

08/09/2021

L'shanah tovah folks!

“לרגל חג ראש השנה היהודית, אנו מאחלים לכם וליקרים לכם, שתהיה שנה טובה ומלאת ברכות.”

27/08/2021

Great story from Dani Rotstein ...

T_HIAS

19/08/2021

10/08/2021

Trade could reach $1 billion for the whole of 2021, and could exceed $3 billion within three years.

06/08/2021

Exceptional story..

After the N**is invaded the Netherlands in 1940, a Dutch watchmaker named Corrie ten Boom and her family decided to build a secret room in their home. For four years, they would use this room to hide Jews — and save them from the Holocaust.

“The ten Boom family sheltered as many Jewish refugees as possible until they could be transported away to safety. And by the time an informant tipped off the Gestapo in 1944, they had helped rescue more than 800 people.

Ten Boom would later tell her story in a powerful book titled “The Hiding Place.”

Caption from on Instagram.

14/07/2021

Next year will mark the 800th anniversary of the 1222 Synod of Oxford, in which antisemitic laws were passed, such as laws forcing Jews to wear clothing to distinguish them from Christians. Now, the Church of England plans to offer repentance over the antisemitic church laws, which forced a Jewish expulsion from medieval England.

14/07/2021

When I drove over to 91-year-old Elayne Hoffman’s Caulfield house in June 2021, she had heard that I was seeking to interview Jewish Australians with Greek heritage. Alert, hospitable and …

02/07/2021

Great news in uncertain times..

Installation by Turner prize winner Laure Prouvost tells stories of women who once gathered at synagogue

27/11/2020

500 years late, but who's counting..

Beyond recognition of the day, activities will be held by the Education Ministry to help teach Israelis and provide resources on the history of the Spanish Inquisition.

25/11/2020

A good Thanksgiving read..

“Luis de Torres was a refugee of faith, and for that reason, we may consider him the first of the pilgrims.”