New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish | Judaism

New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish | Judaism

In 1553, a community of exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had found refuge and patronage in the northern Italian city of Ferrara did something that would have been unthinkable, and very... Read more »
Spanish author lambasts linguistic academy over social media influence | Spain

Spanish author lambasts linguistic academy over social media influence | Spain

One of Spain’s best-known novelists has launched a withering attack on the country’s leading linguistic authority, saying it ignores the opinions of writers when it comes to changes in language, and that... Read more »
‘Difficult love’: Spanish publisher reprints groundbreaking book of Lorca’s homoerotic sonnets | Federico García Lorca

‘Difficult love’: Spanish publisher reprints groundbreaking book of Lorca’s homoerotic sonnets | Federico García Lorca

In the autumn of 1983, dozens of carefully chosen readers received an envelope containing a slim, red booklet of sonnets that had been locked away since they were written almost 50 years... Read more »
‘It’s about being able to say goodbye’: Spanish graphic novel explores early Franco-era reprisals | Spain

‘It’s about being able to say goodbye’: Spanish graphic novel explores early Franco-era reprisals | Spain

At the beginning of the new Spanish graphic novel El abismo del olvido (The Abyss of Forgetting), a murdered man climbs out of his grave, lights a cigarette and takes stock of... Read more »
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