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Stamp "500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain"

dated 1992
(Israel, 20th c.)
Magos Foundation Collection

THE FALL OF THE NASRID DYNASTY GAVE WAY TO INTOLERANCE. THE JEWS WERE EXPELLED.

With the end of the Muslim kingdom of Granada in January 1492, Catholic Kings sounded the death knell for multi religious co-existence that the Nasrids had made possible for two and a half centuries. The decree to expel the Jews was pronounced in March 1492. The Sephardic Jews went into exile. From then on, all of medieval Europe persecuted the Jews. A few years later, Muslims would also be persecuted. Through torture and burning at the stake, the Inquisition imposed an identity based on the Catholic faith on the entire Iberian territory.