Jews under the Visigoths in Spain
Many of the rulers believed that religious unity was important and Catholics were intermittently persecuted. Eventually the rulers became Christian and Latin became the official language. Emperor Herclius commanded Jew to accept Christianity within a year or leave. Jews had became numerous, Hadrian had transplanted 50,000 Jewish families to the peninsula. Some 90,000 converted and the remainder were severely persecuted.
http://www.insanehobby.150m.com/clare/histspain1.html
LESSER KNOWN HIGHLIGHTS OF JEWISH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE COMMON ERA
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:8vuUz5ni5cYJ:www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/HistoryPersecution.xls+massacre+jews+rouen&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4
ANTI-SEMITISM: MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE EUROPE
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Religion/Antisemitism%20Medieval.htm
Jewish Optimism and the Holiday of the Trees
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Here is a Dry Bones cartoon about Tu B'Shvat, the holiday of the Trees,
from 1997. It falls on February 2nd this year.
I am going to post the whole blo...
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