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. . .

Despite their forced public Catholicism, some 15th-century conversos doggedly kept Jewish ritual practice alive—a family odyssey.

In Catalonia, Spain, the scene of centuries of Jewish hopes and achievement, a student of Jewish history is beset by a torrent of emotions. (1981)