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Inquisition

A New Film Tells the Story of a Jewish Revival in Portugal

A Marrano Dreyfus.

Rich Tenorio
Jan. 21 2019 12:01AM

A Novel about the Latin American Inquisition with Surprising Relevance for Today’s Jews

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

Dara Horn
Aug. 20 2018 12:01AM

The “Confession” of One of the New World’s First Rabbis

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

Oren Zweiter
March 15 2018 12:01AM

How a Portuguese University Saved a 15th-Century Hebrew Bible from the Inquisition

The Abravanel Bible.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Oct. 30 2017 12:01AM

The Hidden Diary of a Victim of the Mexican Inquisition

Luis de Carvajal’s miniature memoir.

Natasha Pizzey
June 6 2017 12:01AM

Rediscovered after a Mysterious Theft: the Oldest Document of Jewish Life in the New World

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

Joseph Berger
Jan. 4 2017 12:01AM

The New Mexican Inquisition

A new exhibit in Santa Fe.

Rich Tenorio
Aug. 22 2016 12:01AM

A Jew—or a Christian?

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.

Renée Levine Melammed
June 10 2014 12:01AM