Hispanism theater in the Netherlands and the Generation of '98, as well as the Sephardic refugee writers in the Netherlands. Cees Nooteboom has written books about travel to Spain, including "Roads to Santiago". produced a Dutch translation of "Don Quixote" in 1994, and Hispanism continues to be promoted by Dutch writers such as Rik Zaal ("Alles over Spanje"), Gerrit Jan Zwier, Arjen Duinker, Jean Pierre Rawie, Els Pelgrom ("The Acorn Eaters"), Chris van der Heijden ("The Splendour of Spain from Cervantes to Velázquez"), "Albert Helman", Maarten Steenmeijer, and Jean Arnoldus Schalekamp ("This is Majorca: The Balearic Islands : Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera").
History of the Jews in the Balearic Islands 5th century, at the instigation of Bishop Severus, a persecution of the Jews took place in Mahon (Magona), the capital of Minorca. As a result, a number of Jews, including Theodore, a rich representative Jew who stood high in the estimation of his coreligionists and of Christians alike, underwent baptism. In consequence of the persecutions of the Almohades in Spain (1146), the number of Jews on the islands increased, and in Palma, the capital of Majorca, a large synagogue and two smaller ones were erected. The Jews engaged in trade and agriculture; and estates, both hereditary (rahals) and leasehold (alguerias),