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What Don Quixote has to say to Spain about today's immigrant crisis

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imageTilting at 21st-century Spain?Vitold Muratov, CC BY-SA

In 1492, the Spanish Inquisition forced Jews to convert to Christianity or to leave the Iberian peninsula – on pain of death. Some five centuries later, in June 2015, the Spanish Parliament invited the descendants of those Jewish exiles to apply for Spanish...

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