78. The Spanish Inquisition (Jewish History Lab)

Brief discussion of the Spanish Inquisition from its inception to the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.

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[edoboleyn]

After all these years, Dr. Abramson, your lectures on Jewish history remain some of my favorite resources on the web. They’ve often been launch pads into new reading and even art projects. They’re a treasure I would recommend to anyone. : )

[ckotty]

Brilliant, succinct but thorough presentation.
Those were dark times. That's how we were, we mustn't forget.
Many thanks 👍🏽😘

[philcoppa]

The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision Paperback – Illustrated, May 27, 2014
by Henry Kamen

[josephking]

Many thanks Dr Abramson, for yet another edifying lecture. Keep well.

[levand]

Really loved that lecture, Dr Abramson!
Is there any chance you could do a nice hour-long lecture/lengthy lecture on the history and customs of the Yemenite Jewry?
And talk about The Exile of Mawza and the Great Poet Shalem Shabazi?
That would be really interesting.
Thanks!

[humbertorodriguez]

Thank you professor for your bright and well supported lectures. I'm a live example of how this ruptures can survive through generations. The same father who best raised me to be good catholic instilled in me a dearest love for the Jews because of our Jew ancestors. Only by being in this situation you can trully understand the heart ripping feeling of a divided heart.

[NBIoffical]

I am a Protestant Christian, I find your lectures stimulating, after 30 years of Bible study, ur lectures add so much more interest in the background of the Christian Bible, thx u

[cindys]

Would people who protected or tried to defend accused conversos also wind up condemned by the Inquisition?

[matthewsainsbury]

i also heard henry that when colombus was in his 1492 voyage he said in his diary that he saw a unexplained light going up and down following the santa maria, ive also heard that someone said that coloumbus said it looked like the seven candles of the menorah, but whatever the case may be the documentary said columbus was questioned by the inquisition on what he saw it just shows the hatred and the paranoia of the time he lived in during the inqusition scholars beleive since this light appeared near the bermuda triangle the say it may have been a UFO to me it seems even this topic on ufos has also affected history in some way

[virginiahansen]

The Spanish Inquisition had a significant advantage.
Namely that nobody ever suspects them.

[zafirjoe]

The inquisition started in Seville where there was more than 30 synagogues ( some of which were turned into churches) . The square called Plaza de Mayor was the place where the first six conversos where burned at stake in the first auto de fé in 1481 more then 10 years before the expulsion . I was there with my son we recited some tehilim there .

[matthewsainsbury]

thanks henry abramson that inquisitor thomas de teiguemada i watched a film called the four blood moons, made by a american pastor john hagee, i heard in the movie they said thomas was a jew in his early life but converted to the catholic inquisition, i heard you mention henry about the torture instruments that where used by theinquisitors the movie showed it it was graphic ive heard coloumbus may have had jewish ancestry since his last name colon has a hebraic kohanic name, ive heard when hewent on his second voyage to the new world he saw a blood moon in september 1493, i also heard that when the jews where expelled in 1492 it occured on the 9th of av which is the anniversary of the temples destruction

[simongiles]

Well, I didn't expect th...
On second thought, let's not do that.

[isakpardo]

thank you for this extraordinary and explıcıte lecture

[emotionalmodels]

At the end, you said God willing.
Surprising that you would use some Germanic word to describe your almighty

[j.c.serranosanchez]

The parents of Torquemada were converted jews

[valmarsiglia]

One of the absolute low points in the history of Christianity.