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October 30, 2017
How a Portuguese University Saved a 15th-Century Hebrew Bible from the Inquisition
The Abravanel Bible.
In 1497, Portugal began the forced conversion of its Jewish population, which included large numbers of Jews who had fled there after their expulsion from Spain five years earlier. Thousands of Jews were massacred or deported and many more converted, leading to the establishment of the Portuguese Inquisition, which sought to stamp out real or imagined cases of the secret practice of Judaism among converts and their descendants. Under these circumstances, the survival of the Abravanel Bible in the library of the University of Coimbra—an institution founded in central Portugal in 1290—is quite remarkable. Cnaan Liphshiz writes:
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How a Portuguese University Saved a 15th-Century Hebrew Bible from the Inquisition
The Abravanel Bible.