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Nitpicking, but the Spanish Jews fled to other parts of Europe (and Anatolia, which is indeed in Asia and not in Europe), other parts of Europe which were quite happy to accept them. I'm talking of course about the Ottoman sultans. Thessaloniki (a European city) became the Sephardic Jews' cultural capital, so to speak (the same as Vilnius, Warsaw or Lviv were for Ashkenazi Jews) but of course that all tragically disappeared once the Germans got hold of the city in WW2.

Otherwise, do you happen to know of any book (written in English, Spanish or even French) that talks at a reasonable length about the lasting cultural influences of the Arab society and culture on the Spanish society and culture after 1600? (i.e. after the Mozarabs were forced to leave). I'd imagine that in the same way the Arab cuisine had a lasting influence on parts of the Spanish cuisine the same (must of) happened to Arab laws that used to be in place in what is now Spain, Arab popular traditions and even the Arab language itself.



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