Letter to the Spanish People – par Albert Russo
How many times have I visited your beautiful country with a twinge of remorse, however, since I knew that the Inquisition was the devilish creation of Isabel the Catholic and Ferdinand. How Christian could they have been to devise such cruelty?
Surely Jesus, the Jewish rabbi, Mary and Joseph, his Jewish parents must have turned in their graves after what they did to their people!
How I loved Seville, Cordoba and Granada, Ronda and Malaga, with their quaint old city centers, called the judería! – yes, the Jewish town!
How pleasant were my vacations in your lovely Balearic Islands and in your splendid Canaries, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Santa Cruz!
What delicious time I had in Barcelona and in Madrid, visiting your stupendous monuments, the Prado and Toledo, with its ancient synagogue. I could go on and on with praises about your country, so varied, so colorful and so passionate, with its unequalled flamenco and its corridas – the pageantry, not the pain they inflict on the bulls, which is absolutely disgraceful!
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