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Inquisition

  • Catharine Pilafas (left) plays Gonzalez

    Franco, an Israeli, and the Inquisition

    A new off-Broadway production based on the Israeli play looks at two troubled periods in Spanish-Jewish relations.

  • Portuguese Secretary of State for Tourism Ana Mendes Godinho

    Citizenship for Sephardic Jews ‘connects past, present and future'

    While only about 1,000 Jews live in Portugal today, some 26,000 people claiming Portuguese heritage have applied for citizenship.

  • Tourists pay a visit to Toledo’s 12th-century synagogue, Santa Maria La Blanca, in central Spain.

    A Spanish odyssey: Digging up Sephardi roots

    Almost two years on, it’s time to examine a much-talked-about law meant to right a historical wrong for exiled Sephardim and offer them Spanish citizenship.

  • Genevieve Terver-Noel

    His/her story: A conversa prophetess

    Inés was certain Elijah was coming to announce the messiah; Unfortunately, her activity attracted attention of the Inquisition.

    By RENÉE LEVINE MELAMMED

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    His/Her Story: A 16th-century Judaizer from Castile

    This conversa, her husband and four children lived in the village of Cogolludo in Castile, where they worked, interacted with neighbors.

    By RENÉE LEVINE MELAMMED

  • Inquisition and the auto-de-fa

    A Knesset conference on reconnecting with the descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews

    "The forced conversions of Jews which took place on the Iberian Peninsula from the 14th century onwards left an indelible mark on Jewish history."

    By ROBERT ILATOV,ASHLEY PERRY

  • Francisco de Goya

    Kol Nidre and the Bnei Anusim

    The Inquisition and Expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula left an indelible mark on Jewish history, perhaps like no other event.

    By ASHLEY PERRY

  • A painting by Moshe Maimon

    Portuguese Parliament approves memorial for victims of Inquisition

    Eighty percent of the cases were those of Jews, the most prosecuted minority in the Inquisition.

    By CASSANDRA GOMES-HOCHBERG

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