In “Karmele,” one of the Basque films at this year’s festival, the Basque language itself comes under threat. For centuries, rulers sought to stamp out cultural difference, Franco banning Basque from ...

LITERATURE often flourishes like certain kinds of plants, between the cracks in walls that gardeners have forgotten to tend. It can spring from the oppressed, impoverished, ignored. “An Anthology of ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand may help rewrite the history of the Basque language, one of Europe’s most mysterious tongues. Investigators in ...

WITH THEIR unique language, unrelated to all other European tongues, the continent’s oldest cave paintings, and their seafaring, gastronomic and choral traditions, the Basques have long had a strong ...

THE Basques or Euskaldunak (i.e. “the Men”), as they call themselves, are a most remarkable people who have long been an interesting problem to ethnologists. The most anomalous point about the Basques ...

Mark Kurlansky is the author of "The Basque History of the World" (Penguin, 2001). Time passes; labels change. That great scourge of the 20th century, anti-communism, is now called anti-terrorism. It ...

Some U.S. cities have become practically synonymous with the ethnic and religious groups who have settled there, such as the proud Irish Americans of Boston's "Southie" neighborhood (see also: every ...

Before a banner reading “Ongi Etorri” — “welcome” in the Basque language — Grand Junction officials, along with Basques from across Colorado, and from California came together over the weekend to ...

In "Karmele," one of the Basque films at this year's festival, the Basque language itself comes under threat. For centuries, rulers sought to stamp out cultural difference, Franco banning Basque from ...