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A Comparative Analysis of Berith and the Sacrament of Baptism and How They Contributed to the Inquisition
- Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota
In 1391 Spanish Jews were forcibly converted to Catholic Christianity, and Portuguese Jews suffered the same fate in 1497. Jewish law rendered involuntary converts as anusim and voluntary converts as meshumadim. Christians without Jewish ancestry cal...