Judaism

The Jewish community in Spain is concentrated in the larger cities like Madrid, Barcelona or Seville and in the regions along the Mediterranean coast like the Spanish Levant (Alicante and Valencia) or the Costa del Sol of Andalusia (Malaga, Marbell and Torremolinos). The communities of Ceuta and Melilla made up of Sephardic families from Morocco and Algeria should also be mentioned.
The Spanish Jewish community experienced a growth in its numbers during the 20th century, first, with the arrival of families from Western Europe who were fleeing from their countries during the First and Second World Wars. The end of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco in 1956 also brought on the voluntary exile of many Jews to cities like Ceuta, Melilla and Malaga.
More recently, the community was enriched with people from Latin America as a result of the economic and political crises that that part of the world is experiencing.