Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Sefarad
Angaben zur Quelle:
67,1 (2007) 111-154; 67,2: 367-414; 68,1 (2008) 105-162; 68,2 :413-459; 69,1 (2009) 131-158
Keywords:
Crypto-Jews
;
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Inquisition
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Judaism Liturgy
Abstract:
Disputes the views expressed in recent publications by two French historians, Israël S. Révah and Charles Amiel, who accept the Inquisition's view about the reality of "Marranism" or "crypto-Judaism" in the late 16th century in the towns of Quintanar de la Orden and Alcázar de San Juan. Claims that the charges are false, based on gossip and innuendo in the form of denunciations, sometimes due to torture or fear of being put on trial oneself by the Inquisitors. Often whole families or clans were accused and/or forced to accuse each other. Two letters presented in Spanish provide information by an accused (after two years in prison, three months of torture, and his aborted execution) about his own and his relatives' assets that the Inquisition had not succeeded in confiscating. He also apparently helped locate and identify other representatives of what the Inquisition branded as "hidden Judaic heresy". Examines fragments of an allegedly Jewish liturgy used by the Inquisition to condemn members of the Mora family. Concludes that they relate to Judaizing rather than Marranism, reflecting the Spanish desire to "purify" the country to the extent of fabricating Marranos rather than discovering them. An appendix includes extracts from a trial of a member of the Mora family.
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