Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition? This tale became ...

BARCELONA -- Spain's Catalonia region suffered some of the most virulent anti-Semitism of the Middle Ages. Most Jews were driven out nearly a century before the country expelled the others in 1492. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An auto-da-fé − a public punishment for heretics − in San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico. Museo Nacional de Arte via ...

(The Conversation) — Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world. (The Conversation) — Every few years ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. This tale became widespread around the late 19th century, when large numbers of ...