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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

Portuguese Inquisition

Sebastião Feio, president of the Porto municipal general assembly, speaks at a ceremony dedicating the Portuguese city's memorial to the local victims of the Inquisition, Septemver 3, 2023. (Courtesy: CIP-CJP via JTA)
September 9, 2023, 11:47 am
Porto’s Jewish community unveils memorial to 842 victims of Portuguese Inquisition
Local victims aged 10 to 110 years old were killed or expelled in the Portuguese Inquisition between 1536 to 1821
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustration showing Jews burning during the Inquisition (public domain)
March 6, 2023, 4:48 pm
Inspired by Purim heroine Esther, Inquisition-era crypto-Jews feasted in her honor
Church records tell of a Jewish woman’s 1688 confession to admiring Queen Esther, who also hid her Jewish identity. Her community prepared special foods for ‘St. Esther’s Feast’
By Ronit Treatman
Illustrative: The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto, Portugal, on September 2, 2016. (AFP Photo/ Miguel Riopa)
September 29, 2022, 11:14 pm
Restrictions lifted from Porto rabbi as Portuguese citizenship fraud case continues
Lisbon court says no ‘single fact’ shows Rabbi Daniel Litvak gave priority to requests of Jews for Portuguese citizenship, in investigation tied to oligarch Roman Abramovich
By PHILISSA CRAMER
From left to right: Genealogist Genie Milgrom, Reconnectar's Ashley Perry, and ASF Institute of Jewish Experience's Drora Arussy (Avrom Ariev)
September 27, 2022, 8:05 am
Initiatives help descendants of Crypto-Jews reconnect with stolen Sephardic heritage
Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry validates identity, while an online ancestral database of 45,000 Sephardic family names makes searching for roots easier
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A page from the manuscript describing autos-da-fé trials in Lisbon from 1540-1669, during the Portuguese Inquisition. (Courtesy of the National Library of Israel)
July 7, 2022, 12:21 am
National Library finds rare 18th-century text detailing Portuguese Inquisition
Centuries-old manuscript, recounting more than 100 years of hearings and brutal executions of individuals accused of practicing Judaism and other ‘sins,’ is now digitized online
By Michael Horovitz
Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich attends the UEFA Women's Champions League final soccer match against FC Barcelona in Gothenburg, Sweden, on May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
December 30, 2021, 5:19 am
Abramovich claim of Sephardic descent to get Portuguese citizenship draws scrutiny
Questions raised after Russian-Israeli billionaire uses law that repatriates descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled during the Inquisition; officials say criticism ‘unjustified’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich attends the UEFA Women's Champions League final soccer match against FC Barcelona in Gothenburg, Sweden, on May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
December 19, 2021, 9:06 am
Oligarch Abramovich gets Portugal passport under Jewish ancestry law
Billionaire Chelsea owner adds EU passport to his Russian and Israeli ones, under rules for people descended from Jews expelled in 15th century
By ToI Staff
A rare scroll of the Book of Esther, believed to have been penned in mid-15th century in the Iberian Peninsula. (National Library of Israel)
February 22, 2021, 6:19 pm
15th-century Esther scroll, among oldest in world, gifted to National Library
Rare full text believed to have been penned in Iberian Peninsula around 1465, mere decades before Spanish and Portuguese expulsions
By ToI Staff
The Mevo Hama vantage point is located inside the Mevo Hama forest and built around the Ein Aduk spring. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 9, 2020, 8:10 am
Stunning views, steeped in history: A guide to Sea of Galilee vantage points
Day trippers can maintain social distancing while touring Israel’s northern hills, once home to Inquisition refugees and hostile Syrian troops
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu checks a phone while leaning on a memorial to Jews massacred in Lisbon, Portugal in 1506, on December 5, 2019. (Shalom Yerushalmi/Zman Yisrael)
December 5, 2019, 6:57 pm
Sara Netanyahu at Lisbon memorial: My family is suffering an inquisition too
Asked about legal woes, PM’s wife says she’s subjected to persecution similar to that endured by medieval Jews of Portugal
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Director Joseph Lovett with Carmen Gomez Gomez, examining a 14th-century tax document in the Toledo cathedral archives, in this still from 'Children of the Inquisition.' (Lovett Productions)
October 26, 2019, 2:50 am
How Jews expelled from Spain forged a diaspora with ties to 25% of Latin America
Film ‘Children of the Inquisition’ examines forced conversion of Sephardim from the Iberian Peninsula 500 years ago and why their descendants still feel ripple effects
By Rich Tenorio
A cyclist passes by signs for Portuguese political parties during national elections in Porto, Portugal, on October 6, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
October 6, 2019, 1:09 pm
New citizenship in hand, Israelis vote from abroad in Portuguese elections
Thousands of recently naturalized Jews of Sephardic descent were able to cast absentee ballots ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary poll — even if they had never lived in Portugal
By Melanie Lidman
Mordechai Ben Abir unveils a street renamed after his ancestors who were expelled from Spain in the town of Falset, Spain, at a ceremony on May 16, 2016. (Youtube screenshot)
July 31, 2019, 9:44 pm
500 years after Inquisition, 10,000 Sephardi Jews close circle with citizenships
While some apply for Portuguese and Spanish citizenship to celebrate their family’s roots, most look to economic opportunity and a future that an European passport can offer
By Melanie Lidman
The Spanish Inquisition Tribunal, a 19th-century work by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY)
July 17, 2019, 7:20 pm
Portugal grants citizenship to 10,000 descendants of Sephardi Jews
After 2015 law opens up opportunity for citizenship, Israelis soar to second place in list of nations requesting Portuguese passports
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Actors re-enact scenes from the Inquisition period outside Belmonte's Jewish museum, October 14, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
January 19, 2019, 8:00 am
Portugal’s only rural Jewish community seeks a seat at the table
Synagogues in Lisbon and Porto are stonewalling a 70-strong community in Belmonte, whose crypto-Jewish ancestors secretly retained their faith since the Inquisition
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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