As descendants of forced converts return to Judaism.

Luis de Carvajal and the beginning of Mexico City.

The country did not end autos-de-fé until 1821.

“In just thinking of Him my spirit rejoices.”

Evidence of Jewish perseverance at the height of the Inquisition.

A Marrano Dreyfus.

Long before demanding Jews’ bodies, anti-Semitic societies demanded Jews’ dignity.

The man who would ban Spinoza first wrote poetry in Brazil.

The Abravanel Bible.

Luis de Carvajal’s miniature memoir.

A crypto-Jew’s diary, written so as to be hidden from the Inquisition.

A new exhibit in Santa Fe.

For one 16th-century child of forced converts, being a Christian in Antwerp alternated with being a Jew in Venice—until being caught and tried by the Inquisition.