Volume 43, Number 2 · February 1, 1996
The Secret of the Inquisition
By Henry Kamen
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain
by B. Netanyahu
Random House, 1,384 pp., $50.00
No institution in Western history has so fearful a reputation as the Spanish Inquisition. In the sixteenth century a Jewish writer referred to it as a 'wild monster of such terrible mien that all of Europe trembles at the mere mention of its name.' Every nation opposed it during the period of its greatest influence. But it was the Jews who had most reason to hate it.
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