Tomás de Torquemada

Tomás de Torquemada (October 14, 1420 – September 16, 1498), also written in English as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Castilian Dominican friar. He was the first Grand Inquisitor^[1] in the Spanish Inquisition.^[1]

Spanish Inquisition

The Spanish Inquisition made thousands of Jews and Muslims leave Spain and many of them were killed by burning at stakes.^[2][3] Specialized historians found that as many as 300,000 Jews lost their lives to the Spanish Inquisition.^[2][3]

Related pages

• Antisemitism
• Spanish Empire
• Supersessionism
• Antisemitism in Europe

Other websites

• The Catholic Church
• The Secret of the Inquisition
• Antisemitism in History: From the Early Church to 1400
• Foundations of Holocaust: From Inquisition to “Purity of Blood”
• The Roman Catholic Church, the Holocaust, and the demonization of the Jews. Response to “Benjamin and us: Christanity, its Jews, and history” by Jeanne Favret-Saada

References

1. "Tomás de Torquemada | First Grand Inquisitor of Spain". Britannica. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
2. • Rafael Sabatini (2020). Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition: A History. Good Press. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
   • O’Connor, Thomas (2016). Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition: Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia. doi:10.1057/9781137465900. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
   • "Role of Irish people in the Spanish Inquisition explored". Maynooth University Department of History. May 6, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
   • "The Irish-Spanish Inquisition Alliance". Denis Casey. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
   • Egmond, Florike; Zwijnenberg, Robert (2003). "Physicians' and Inquisitors' Stories? Circumcision and Crypto-Judaism in Sixteenth–Eighteenth-Century Spain". Bodily Extremities (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781315261447. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
3. • Jacobs, Janet Liebman (September 2002). "Introduction: Crypto-Jewish Descent: An Ethnographic Study in Historical Perspective". Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (1 ed.). University of California Press. pp. 1–20. doi:10.1525/california/9780520233461.003.0001. Retrieved December 6, 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
   • Ward, Seth (Summer 2004). "Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition (review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 22 (4). University of Nebraska Press: 167–169. doi:10.1353/sho.2004.0117. Retrieved December 6, 2024.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
   • Bodian, Miriam (May 2007). Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World. ISBN 9780253348616. Retrieved December 6, 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
   • Kamen, Henry (May 27, 2014). The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300180510. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
   • Reich, Aaron (August 23, 2022). "Crypto-Jews: What is the history of secret Jews? - explainer". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 6, 2024.