The Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions that began in the late 15th and 16th centuries and lasted well into the 19th … More
Tag: Inquisition
The Rise of the Inquisition Part 2
This is the second lecture of a series of discussions on the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition. These videos are short … More
The Rise of the Inquisition Part 1
This is the first lecture of a series of discussions on the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition. These videos are short … More
Secret Jews: The Complex Identity of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Judaism
Secret Jews is on sale today! Checkout it out! For Jews, life in the Iberian Peninsula was never quite as … More
Secret Jews-The Rise of the Inquisition-Persecution and Conversion
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Doña Gracia de Mendes
Doña Gracia was probably introduced to many interested in the history of Spanish Jewry and Conversos by the work of Cecil … More
An auto-da-fé in Lisbon’s Terreiro do Paço.
Posted by Rabbi Juan Bejarano Gutierrez the director of the B’nei Anusim Center for Education and the author of Secret … More
A Procession of Flagellants by Francisco Goya
A Procession of Flagellants by Francisco Goya 1793 Posted by Rabbi Juan Bejarano Gutierrez the director of the B’nei Anusim Center … More
Diego y Gonzalo de Morales and the Mexican Inquisition
Gonzalo had arrived in the Indies 1520s. Gonzalo eventually owned a store in Mexico City. He was initially arrested by … More
The Challenge of Modern Day Conversos
The challenge of present day descendants of Conversos may not seem comparable to the those faced by Conversos in the 14th, … More
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