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Analyzes the degree of assimilation of the Spanish Conversos based on Jewish perceptions as reflected in responsa and in polemical and exegetical Jewish literat

"An account of the origins and fate of those Spanish Jews who -- terrorized by the massacre of 1391 and the Inquisition -- professed Christianity to escape pers

The Spanish Inquisition remains a fearful symbol of state terror. Its principal target was theconversos, descendants of Spanish Jews who had been forced to conv

The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancem

The Jewish community of medieval Spain was the largest and most important in the West for more than a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and politi