... any other European county. They constituted the single largest Jewish community in the world. During the centuries of Moorish domination, the Jews had flourished as nowhere else on the continent (Stewart 25). Their fluency in Arabic enabled them to serve as cultural translators between the Spanish-speaking ... and former Jews became commonplace and within two generations, most of Spanish nobility had some Jewish branches in their family tree (Stewart 35). For example, many leading church and governmental dignitaries in the 15th century, including the family of King Ferdinand, who unified...

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