scruffy1
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Holy Year from Pamplona 2010, SJPP 2011, Lisbon 2012, Le Puy 2013, Vezelay (partial watch this space!) 2014; 2015 Toulouse-Puenta la Reina (Arles)
Our Jewish Festival of Lights is now upon us! While never a major holiday in Spain, it all but disappeared with the inception of Inquisition since the public display of candles was a sure giveaway to reveal Conversos and Anosim, those Jews forced to convert. Hanukah is now celebrated in Southern Spain, in Gerona, in Pamplona and possibly elsewhere. It is a happy time marking a gruesome event, nothing unusual concerning many holidays of many peoples. Spanish contributions to the holiday include buñuelo fried dough with a drizzle of honey something like the French beignet, keftes de prasas that is leek fritters, boyos de Spinaca a phyllo or puff paste pastry with spinach and cheese - burekas or börek in the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey, and what is known as Briouats almond paste stuffed pastry found now in Morocco. Lastly, a song in Ladino, a dialect of Spanish used by the exiled Jews of Spain all over the Mediterranean from Sicily to Greece to Turkey and Israel. "Ocho Kandakitas"