Growing anti-Semitism and poor economic prospects are threatening to extinguish two Jewish communities on the North African coast. JTA – 6 October 2002 – After the expulsion from Spain in 1492, a small number of Jews escaped across the Strait of Gibraltar to two fortress cities that Spanish kings were establishing as beachheads in North Africa. […]
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