Inquisition

Porto’s Jewish community unveils memorial to 842 local victims of Portuguese Inquisition

The victims ranged in age from 10 to 110 and were identified using newly digitized records.

By Shira Li Bartov September 8, 2023 6:21 pm

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Two Israeli women arrivng to Lisbon, Portugal on Feb. 15, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Spain and Portugal have naturalized more than 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews since 2015

Of 54,000 Portuguese applicants, more than two thirds were Israelis.

January 3, 2022 7:01 pm

A leather shop that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Cnaan Liphshiz

For Mallorca’s Jews, their first ‘public’ sukkah is a triumph over the Spanish Inquisition

The island’s first sukkah made in tandem with local government represents a community’s steady resurgence.

September 20, 2021 3:07 pm

The four pillars of the Synagogue of Tomar, Portugal (Wikimedia Commons)

Museum inside Portugal’s oldest Jewish synagogue reopened

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 25, 2019 8:49 am

On this Spanish island, Purim used to be the biggest holiday for persecuted Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 12, 2019 3:28 pm

Outside Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue, Spanish olive trees endure northern winters

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 27, 2018 4:08 pm

In northern Brazil, Sephardic converts are giving dwindling Jewish communities a new lease on life

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 26, 2018 12:15 pm

How this pristine 15th-century Hebrew Bible survived the Inquisition

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 18, 2017 1:15 pm

A Yom Kippur tradition in Amsterdam dates back to the invention of electricity

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 14, 2017 1:28 pm

This 400-year-old Jewish library survived Hitler and the Inquisition

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 27, 2017 3:56 pm

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