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.

Over 500 years after its expulsion.

He professed a religion he continued to scorn.

Returning to Judaism after 500 years of hiding.

In 1391, a wave of violence against Jews swept through Christian Spain. In its wake, thousands of Jews converted to Christianity. The following century saw. . .