"When translating Gómara’s triumphant narrative of Spanish discoveries and conquest, Ha-Kohen recoiled. It was a narrative that could not remain unanswered, especially to Sephardi Jews who, after being expelled, had had to grapple with the reality that Spain did not suffer a setback due to the departure of its Jewish population but became a powerful global empire." https://psyche.co/ideas/hidden-in-translation-jewish-resistance-to-spanish-empire