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.

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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.

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.

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

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Museum inside Portugal’s oldest Jewish synagogue reopened

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

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

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

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

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

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

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