Secret Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition Mark Granier

Secret Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition Mark GranierFrom the end of the fifteenth century until the eighteenth century Spanish Jews carried on Jewish practices in the shadow of the Inquisition. Those caught were forced to recant or be burnt at the stake in public autos de fe. This book describes the private lives of these secret Jews, drawing on their confessions and trial documents. This paperback edition covers the survival of Jewish practices into modern times in Portugal and Spain, where families

Ahmed Barakat: Poems

Words like trout

The plays and their writers have been chosen because they encompass dramatically different writing styles and can be seen as representative of the type of work that women playwrights are undertaking in Catalonia today

and by Huzamah Habayeb

A prolific writer

Menaghan teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles

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And places stones to structure/the storm strafed wall'

or writing about Iris Murdoch’s Alzheimer’s

the other explores the cruelties and intensities of a sexual relationship in a post-colonial world

they empathise

betrayal - and how much we can afford to lose