Farewell Espana: The World of the Sephardim Remembered - Howard Morley Sachar

In 1492, on the eve of Columbus's voyage, the last professing Jews in Spain were driven from the lands where they had known tolerance during seven centuries of Islamic rule. Those Sephardim who remained could not only do so as New Christians. Those who left became the seed of Jewish civilizations that would spring up as far away as Morocco and the Netherlands, Ottoman Turkey and colonial Brazil.