Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition

Michael Alpert, "Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition" Palgrave (2001) | English | ISBN: 033391791X | 262 pages | PDF | This text is about Spanish secret Judaism and the Inquisition, which strove to uproot the "Judaizing heresy" among baptised Jews and their descendants. Even in the 18th century, Cryptojudaism was still prevalent, but the Inquisition finally triumphed. This work describes the private lives of the crypto Jews, as revealed in their confessions, together with their fate in prison and at the "auto-da-fe" at which they abjured their Judaism and were reconciled to the Church or, if not, burnt at the stake. This book is about the descendants of the Spanish Jews who were baptized between 1391 and 1492. For centuries they secretly adhered to their ancestral faith in a Spain which was totally Catholic. The book illustrates the experiences of men and women, old and young, wealthy and poor, who were arrested, kept in communicado, interrogated and often tortured into confessing their crypto-Jewish behaviour in the Inquisition's 250-year campaign against them. The reader accompanies the victims in their solitary cells, the torture chamber and the court room, as they confess and abjure their secret Judaism and suffer penance. 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hopegone (2010-04-09)

The Catholic church killed ZERO people during the inquisitions

amigo121 (2011-05-16)

I agree with hopegone....it is technically not possible for an ecclesiastical court to pass death sentence, it can only refer an offender who would otherwise deserve the death penalty to a secular court.
Besides, under Spanish law, a baptized Jew had a higher status than a baptized Christian in that even the King could marry any common Jewess but not any Christian commoner.
...and not all former Jews were traitors; Isabela I's chaplain was a former Jew and many nobles of that time were former Jews.
If they really didn't wanna become Christians, why did they convert in the first place? True Jews migrated elsewhere...that's why Jews in the Balkans speak a language that's just like Spanish (Ladino)...
Spain is not Israel. Israel rightly belongs to Jews and Jews alone, but Spain also rightly belongs Gentiles and gentiles alone...challenging that would be challenging the validity of the Israel state.

otsukasan (2013-05-26)

oh......oh sure......they didn't kill anyone xD.....riiiiiight xD