Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Studies Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,4 (2014) 362-390
Keywords:
Castro, Izaque de,
;
Magalhães, Pedro de
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 17th century
;
Jews History 17th century
;
Crypto-Jews History 17th century
;
Inquisition History 17th century
;
Lisbon (Portugal)
Abstract:
Isaac de Castro Tartas was born in France to parents who were Portuguese Crypto-Jews. In 1640 his family moved to Amsterdam, where he received rabbinic instruction from his uncle, Moses Rafael d'Aguilar, a rabbinic scholar and an anti-Christian polemicist with strong rationalist leanings. Castro then became a practicing Jew. For unknown reasons, he traveled to Portuguese Brazil in 1644, where he was apprehended by the Portuguese Inquisition and sent to Lisbon to be tried. An Inquisition record describes his highly reasoned arguments in defense of the Jewish religion, and presents the counter-arguments of the writer of the document, the Dominican friar Pedro de Magalhães, one of a few Inquisitors who were sent to talk to Castro and convince him to return to Christianity to no avail. In 1647, Castro was burned alive at a public auto-da-fe in Lisbon.
DOI:
10.1628/094457014X14127716907100
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