Episode 2: New Frontiers (the Americas, Eastern Europe and the Middle East; 1492 - 1530 CE)
The Jewish Story by Daniel Kroft
Episode notes
In this episode, we will meet the first conversos to set foot on the American continent, see an Ashkenazi population boom in Poland and Lithuania, and witness the rise to dominance of the Mamluk and Ottoman Empires.
Keywords
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