Most of historians agreed that Jews came to the Iberian Peninsula with the Roman legions, and a second group arrived after the destruction of the second Jerusalem temple in 70 C.E.
Other legends mentioned the arrival of Jews to Sepharad (Hebrew word for Spain) with the Phoenician merchants in the X century B.C.E. during King Salomon era.
Obadiah prophet uses the word “Sepharad” for the land that some of the exiled Jews from Jerusalem will live in.
Jews, Moors, and Christians live and worked together in an integrated and tolerant multicultural atmosphere for centuries in the Sepharad (Spain). During this time the Cordova Library had a million volumes.
Actively engaged in trade Spanish Jews were the main importers and exporters of silk, leather, textiles, grains, fruits, spices and cattle.
Travel documentation records show that the Jewish merchant Benjamin of Tudela arrived in China a century before Marco Polo.
Volumes can be written about the work done by Sepharad Jews and Arab scholars working together during this Golden Age.
If the cliché that history repeats itself is valid, “There is hope.”