When Samuel Ha-Levi illegally built a synagogue in the provincial Spanish town of Toledo, no one could have known that it would one day become a church, then a military barracks in the Napoleonic war, a national monument, and finally a museum… but that’s just the beginning!
Revealed: Rare Documentation of the Portuguese Inquisition
A recently discovered manuscript documents the first 130 years of the Portuguese Inquisition’s tribunals, mainly in Lisbon. Recorded on the pages are trials conducted by inquisitors and others against newly converted Christians accused of continuing to practice Judaism in secret…
Revealed: Stirring Words from the Victims of the Mexican Inquisition
Jews in Mexico who secretly kept their faith were tortured and tried. Their tormentors saved their poems…
Was One of Catholic Spain’s Prominent Religious Scholars Secretly Jewish?
New research suggests that Alfonso de Zamora may have remained true to his faith
Kosher Pork Chops and Crypto-Jewish Identity
In Genie Milgrom’s family, hidden Jewish identity was preserved for generations in the food they ate
