Six brief videos chronicling the 2021 journey with Kosher Riverboat Cruises up the Douro River to Salamanca, Spain and back through Portugal. A wonderful fantastic look at the rich history of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula, from the earliest settlement in Roman colonies (possibly earlier!) through the Visigoths, then the brief but brilliant Golden Age in Moorish Spain through the Inquisition and Expulsion of 1492. A highlight for me was visiting Belmonte, home to a crypto-Jewish community that maintained its Jewish identity throughout 500 years of hiding from the wider world, and then spending time in the Mekor Hayim synagogue in Porto, home of a 21st century renaissance of Portuguese Jewish history.
For more information on this and many other amazing tours into Jewish history, please visit https://kosherrivercruise.com.
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