Language:
Dutch
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Rosenthaliana
Angaben zur Quelle:
31,1-2 (1997) 7-30
Keywords:
Pimentel, Luís Vaz
;
Inquisition
;
Crypto-Jews
;
Jews
;
Jews History 1500-1800
Abstract:
Relates the case of Luís Vaz Pimentel (b. 1590), a baptized native of Lisbon, who emigrated to the Netherlands where he was circumcised and lived as a Jew. When he returned to Portugal in 1612, he was interrogated and tried by the Inquisition for "Jewish practices", which resulted in his conviction, punishment, and reconciliation with the Church at an auto-da-fe in 1614. He then returned to the Netherlands where he again lived as a Jew. Later, having fallen into financial difficulties, Pimentel spied on Jews in Rotterdam for Spanish officials. The procedures of the Portuguese Inquisition dating from 1540 are described, including the types of information it gathered, its criteria for conviction, and the punishments and penalties it imposed. States that the records kept by the Portuguese Inquisition are a good source of information about early Jewish life in Rotterdam.
Note:
In Dutch: "Gids voor onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van de joden in Nederland" (2000).
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