BOOKS AND FILMS
provide a vivid picture of the psychological climate
within which people lived
Know of any other other books/films to add to this list?
Then send me an e-mail about them so I can add them to the list.
Thanks, Jack White (vijamada@gmail.com)
book reviews
manuel lopes azevedo
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Inquisição e
Independência, Um Motim No Fundao-1580 Inquisition and Independence, A Riot in Fundão-1580 |
Maria
Antonieta Garcia, Alma Azul, Coimbra, 2006, 227pp |
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Lisboa 1506, O Massacre
Dos Judeus Lisbon, 1506, The Massacre of the Jews |
Susana Bastos Mateus, Paulo Mendes Pinto, Alêtheia Editores, 2007, Lisboa |
books
| Guardian of the Dawn | Richard Zimler (Constable and Robinson, 2005) |
Persecution by the Inquisition in early 17th century Portuguese Goa. |
| Hunting Midnight | Richard Zimler (Constable and Robinson, 2004) |
Oporto, 1800. Napoleon is marching across Europe. The Jews of Portugal, still 'hidden' and baptised, are suffering the threat of a renewed Inquisition |
| Jews, God and History |
Max Dimont (Mentor, 1994) |
Especially Chapter 18 'Crusades, Renaissance and Reformation' |
| Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara | David Kerzer (Picador, 1997) |
The last Jewish boy to be arrested by
the Inquisition in the 19th century |
| The Coffee Trader | David Liss (Abacus, 2003) |
Amsterdam, 1659. The Sephardi community and finance |
| The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain |
Haim Beinart and Jeffrey M. Green (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 2005) |
Classic History |
| The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon | Richard Zimler (Arcadia Books, 1988) |
Set among secret Jews living in Lisbon in the sixteenth century |
| The Last Jew | Noah Gordon (Little Brown, 2000) |
Spain 1492, a 13 year old sees his father and brother die and flees from the Inquisition. Eventually becomes a healer and physician in Granada |
| The Queen's Fool | Phillippa Gregory (Harper Collins, 2003) |
Brilliant story of a Jewish girl and her family who come to England to escape the Inquisition, becomes the 'fool' (comedienne) to Mary Tudor, friend to Elizabeth 1 and is in Calais when it is captured by the French. |
| The Source | James Michener (Random House) 1965) |
Especially the chapter titled 'The Saintly Men of Safed' |
| The Woman Who Defied
Kings: The Life and Times of Dona Gracia Nasi |
Andree Aelion Brooks (Paragon House Publishers; 2003) |
Biography of Dona Gracia Nasi, an outstanding Jewish international banker during the Renaissance. who operated an 'underground railroad' that saved hundreds of conversos from the the Inquisition. She spearheaded one of the earliest attempts to form an independent state for Jews in Israel. |
films
| Secret Files of the Inquisition | www.inquisitionproductions.com |
Filmed in High Definition, this production spans medieval France in Episode 1, 15th century Spain in Episode 2, Renaissance Italy in Episode 3 and mid-nineteenth century Europe in Episode 4. The
4 x 60 mini-series reveals how the most powerful church on earth created
the Inquisition to attack its enemies and preserve the unquestioned
authority of the Pope. Historians, experts and Church authorities advise
on the handling of this controversial subject matter |
| The Last
Marranos Distributed by: National Center for Jewish Film Sharon Pucker Rivo Brandeis University, Lown Building #102 MS053 |
Directed by Frederic Brenner, Stan Neumann France 1990 16mm color 65 minutes Portuguese, w/Eng. subtitles |
THE LAST MARRANOS is an incredible documentary about a community of Marranos in
Portugal who still practice their Judaism in the closet, 500 years
later. They attend church on Sunday, but clandestinely light candles on
Friday, bake matzah on Passover, and say prayers to "Adonai," the Hebrew
word for Lord. Their Christian neighbours murmur about them; the old
Marranos still speak of their fear of Christians. Yet a new generation
appears determined to "come-out" as Jews and establish a synagogue for
the first time in five centuries. This film is an eye-opener! |