Conversos on Trial

The third volume in the Hispania Judaica series is the revised and expanded English version of Anussim be'Din ha-Inqvisitzia in which Haim Beinart describes a community of converses in the days of the Spanish Inquisition. This fascinating story of the conversos of Ciudad Real is eloquently presented on the basis of the Inquisition files which depict the conversos' deep yearning for their Jewish past and the ultimate sacrifice they were prepared to offer for their continued adherence to their ancestral faith. 

Much additional material from the trial records of the Ciduad Real conversos and other source material from the Spanish archives revive and reconstruct Jewish life led clandestinely by the converses before the Expulsion from Spain.