How Israel Can Best Benefit from Its Newfound Friendship with Brazil
Combat Hizballah, and don’t repeat the mistake made with Paraguay.
January 21, 2019
A New Film Tells the Story of a Jewish Revival in Portugal
A Marrano Dreyfus.
Unlike in Spain, where the secret practice of Judaism by converts to Catholicism and their descendants was thoroughly repressed by the Inquisition, some Portuguese crypto-Jews succeeded in preserving religious rituals for centuries. Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (1887-1961), a captain in the Portuguese army, did not grow up with any such rituals, but learned of his Jewish ancestry in a death-bed confession by his grandfather. Thereafter, Barros Basto formally converted to Judaism and worked to establish Jewish communal institutions. A new film, Sefarad, dramatizes his story. Rich Tenorio writes:
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A New Film Tells the Story of a Jewish Revival in Portugal
A Marrano Dreyfus.