Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 6: Prof. Paola Tartakoff - The Papal Inquisition in Spain
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The Attitudes of Christians Towards the Jewish Congress
In theory, the church wants people to convert because it's seen as proof that Christianity is true and superior. In practice though, all the evidence suggests that everyday Christians had a hard time kind of really believing that someone who yesterday was a Jew was suddenly no longer a Jew. These converts therefore have an incredibly hard time unless they're sort of taken under the king's kindness, integrating into Christian society. Many of these men and women actually become wandering beggars and they traipse across Europe from town to town. They really never integrate some kind in multiple generations. We have an England at this time, a Domus Conder Sorum, a home for converts where we have multiple generations of
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