On this day, 529 years ago, that is, on May 21, 1492, the the new synagogue of Plasencia was shuttered and became royal property; on May 21, the Jewish community sold the Jewish cemetery, and in particular its headstones, to Diego de Jerez, then...

Nineteen times between 1541 and 1739, Jews were burned in Lisbon as part of an auto-de-fe. An auto-da-fé (from Portuguese auto da fé [ˈaw.tu dɐ ˈfɛ], meaning 'act of faith') was the ritual of public penance carried out between the 15th and 19th...

On this day, May 7,1355: Twelve hundred Jews of Toledo Spain were killed by Count Henry of Trastamara.  The Jews were caught between the opposing forces in a fight between King Peter and Count Henry, his half-brother who sought the throne for...

On April 26,1654, Eighty-nine years after the first descendants of Jews came to St. Augustine, Florida, Jews were expelled from Brazil. The city of Recife had been taken from the Dutch by the Portuguese. As a Dutch city, Recife had been hospitable...

On April 11, 1649, 372 years ago and 84 years after the founding of St. Augustine, Florida, Tomas Trevino de Sobremonte was burned to death at the stake in Mexico City, a victim of the Inquisition. His crime: observing the "dead law of Moses" and...

By 1703, Don Diego Espinoza had settled in what is today the Palm Valley area. His vast ranch and the surrounding territory was known as Diego Plains. In the 1730s, the ranch was fortified to protect its inhabitants from Indian attack