Locations of events.

Who were these men with whom the Spanish built their Empire? What is the nature of someone who sails into the unknown, to capture gold and silver in the New World for the Spanish King? Anyone looking for an answer to this question will find it in the autobiography of Captain Alonso de Contreras.

The Fiddler on the Roof is one of the most famous musicals of all time. It is based on Scholem Alejchem's novel Tewje, der Milchmann. The humorous stories about a Jewish dairyman, told with sensitivity and wit, made Alejchem one of the most important authors of Yiddish-language literature.

Would you like to get to know a bestseller from the Middle Ages? It's about blood and violence and yet everything ends well. No, we're not talking about a soap opera, but about the Legenda aurea by Jacobus de Voragine.

In 1755 the earth trembled and left the city of Lisbon in ruins. Voltaire took this as an opportunity to reflect on this "dear" God in "Candide". Its basic question is, how a good God can tolerate evil in the world. Is the world completely abandoned by God? Read on.

Gulliver's Travels didn't start as a children's book, but as a spiteful and apt criticism of his contemporaries. If you want to know who Jonathan Swift was teasing with his Houyhnhnms and the Brobdingnags, read on.