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The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain
by
B. Netanyahu
The Spanish Inquisition remains a fearful symbol of state terror. Its principal target was the conversos, descendants of Spanish Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity some three generations earlier. Since thousands of them confessed to charges of practicing Judaism in secret, historians have long understood the Inquisition as an attempt to suppress the Jews o...more
Paperback, 1408 pages
Published
September 30th 2001
by New York Review Books
(first published August 1st 1995)
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God knows how I'll ever get through these 1400 pages. Innocently researching Benyamin Netanyahu for a post I was writing, I discovered his father Benzion was a scholar of no mean repute and author of this book. The reviews were overwhelmingly favourable and on the spur of the moment ordered a copy.
Today it arrived and at the moment sits atop a slippery pile of DVDs behind me, its wonderful rough-cut pages tempting me to skip the two books I'm already into. ...more
God knows how I'll ever get through these 1400 pages. Innocently researching Benyamin Netanyahu for a post I was writing, I discovered his father Benzion was a scholar of no mean repute and author of this book. The reviews were overwhelmingly favourable and on the spur of the moment ordered a copy.
Today it arrived and at the moment sits atop a slippery pile of DVDs behind me, its wonderful rough-cut pages tempting me to skip the two books I'm already into. ...more
Yes, the author is the father of the former Prime Minister of Israel. This book is a massive (1384 pages), authoratitive study of one of the worst episodes associated with Christianity, the Spanish Inquisition (the other low points, among some other serious contenders like the White Protestant support for the system of slavery and injustice imposed on African Americans would surely include the Gallileo Controversy and the murderous course of some of the Crusades as they marched through Europe a...more
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