In 1934, the Romanian-Jewish scholar Valeriu Marcu penned a book about the Spanish Inquisition, “The Expulsion of the Jews From Spain.” Officially banned in Germany because its author was Jewish, the ...

During the Jewish golden age in Spain, from about AD 900 to 1300, Jews contributed to the economy, arts, and pursuit of scientific knowledge that thrived during the sometimes uneasy coexistence of ...

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(JTA) — The world’s longest-running festival dealing with the Spanish Inquisition kicks off next week, celebrating the culture, heritage and history of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were ...

Almost nothing modern people say about the Inquisition is true. The lies perpetuated about the Inquisition were initially the result of Protestant propaganda. There are very few tales as tall as the ...

“Nobody,” the Monty Python skit goes, “expects the Spanish Inquisition,” and the same goes for visitors to the Prado Museum in Madrid. Turning a corner on the second floor, viewers come face-to-face ...

(JTA) — The series “Heirs to the Land” that dropped on Netflix last month looks, at first glance, like just another installment in the fast-growing genre of Spanish period dramas. In some ways it is, ...

When we talk of inquisition it is usually prefaced with a definite article — as in, The Inquisition. But, as Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy points out in his new book, God's Jury, the Inquisition ...