The Jews of Iberia

By Paul Blakeley and Mr Paul Blakeley

Paul Blakeley's concise illustrated account of the Jews of Iberia gives the reader a fascinating insight into their history and survival from Roman times until the present day. Paul has assembled numerous facts which together with the aid of many of his own photographs and research trace the history of the Jews through the Roman, Visigothic and Christian rule of the Iberian Peninsula. The book covers the atrocities of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, the expulsion of the Jews, their enforced conversions, and punishments for heresy and the survival of the Marranos or crypto-Jews. There is also a section on Christopher Columbus and his important connection with the Jews of Spain. Paul also examines the evidence which suggests that Columbus himself might have been a Jew.Paul describes the return of many crypto-Jews to mainstream Judaism, as well as the existence of many people whose habits and names point to their Jewish past without them actually knowing it.Finally he provides a r?sum? of present day Jewish Spain and Portugal and how the Governments of those countries have spent millions of euros on the renovation and preservation of important Jewish sites as well as their encouragement to Sephardic Jews to return to the country of their ancestors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500751448
• ISBN13: 9781500751449
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"