Rabbi Braunstein to Write on Jews and Inquisition of Mallorca

Rabbi Baruch Braunstein, the Counselor to Jewish Students of Columbia University, is now in Madrid, Spain, where he is gathering material in the archives and libraries for his forthcoming work on the Jews and the Inquisition of Mallorca.

Rabbi Braunstein, accompanied by Mrs. Braunstein, came here from Palma de Mallorca, where they spent five weeks gathering material on the life of the secret Jews of Mallorca, called the “Chuetas,” who, though converted to Catholicism in 1435, still live in a section of the capitol city of Mallorca, Palma, called the “Chueteria,” and are still known as Jews.

While in Madrid, Rabbi Braunstein is meeting with a number of the Government’s spokesmen to determine their official attitude upon the return of Jews to Spain. He has already met with the leaders of the small Jewish community in Madrid. From here, Rabbi and Mrs. Braunstein will visit the chief centers of Jewish historic interest in Spain and then proceed to Barcelona, the largest Jewish community in Spain. From there they will go to Marseilles to board ship for Palestine, where they will remain for some months. Rabbi Braunstein is the ### cipient of the Guggenheimer Fello## ship for study in Palestine from the Jewish Institute of Religion. He will return to New York in the autumn to resume his work as the Counselor to Jewish Students, at Columbia University, from which position he has been granted a year’s leave of absence.