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This eighth bibliographic exhibition organized by Bibliotheca Sefarad is dedicated to the history and material heritage of Sefarad with a special focus on the works that address these two aspects of Spanish Jews during the Middle Ages from a local perspective.

In addition to presenting a selection of works from the Bibliotheca, the main objective of this new exhibition dedicated to Spanish Jews is to contribute to increasing an understanding of the Hispanic Jewish past as a whole and the presence of Jews in different locations throughout the medieval Hispanic kingdoms.

Bibliotheca Sefarad has a very extensive collection of books, pamphlets, small leaflets, offprints, periodicals, documents and manuscripts related to the general and local histo...
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This seventh exhibition organized by Bibliotheca Sefarad shows a wide selection of leaflets (one hundred and eight) related to the Inquisition and published in Spain.

The Spanish Inquisition and its three and a half centuries of existence is, without a doubt, one of the institutions that has had the greatest impact on Spanish history, thought, science, culture and mindset. Established by the Catholic Monarchs and authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478, it was a tribunal dependent on and at the service of the Spanish monarchy, created to persecute the Jewish converts accused of Judaizing. Over time, the Holy Office incorporated “heresies” (Islamizing Moors, Lutherans, Protestants, etc.) and “crimes” (witchcraft, bigamy, sodomy, etc.) into its...
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This is the sixth exhibition organized by Bibliotheca Sefarad with the purpose of showing works contributed by Spanish Jews in medieval times.

It is now common knowledge that for 1500 years, Jews inhabited Sefarad, be that under Christian rulers or Muslim rulers. Defining chapters of Jewish history were written in Sefarad. A most checkered history. Persecutions, vicious libels, the Inquisition and last the expulsion from Spain certainly cast a tragic gloom on the fate of Spanish Jews but those should not overshadow the awesome accomplishments that were brought about in the glorious periods of Judeo Iberian history.

For long stretches of those times, Jews started communities that thrived and saw the adv...
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