Luis de Carvajal and the beginning of Mexico City.
The country did not end autos-de-fé until 1821.
“Oh, just some words that my family always says when we enter a church.”
Although the population is less than a tenth of its 15th-century peak.
Alfonso de Zamora.
Reading the Bible as a justification for liberty.
Solomon Molcho.
Mass conversion, purity of blood, and good Jewish families.
Descendants of conversos, scattered among the nations.
Long before demanding Jews’ bodies, anti-Semitic societies demanded Jews’ dignity.
The man who would ban Spinoza first wrote poetry in Brazil.
A refuge for conversos, Holocaust refugees, and anti-Semitic terrorists.
Amsterdam’s Biblioteca Ets Haim.
Sicilian Jews come out of hiding.
The most polished writing and
sharpest analysis in the Jewish world.