A History of the Inquisition of Spain V.1
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— Isidore Loeb (Revue des Etudes Juives, 1887, p. 179). — Ilescas, Historia Pontifical, P. ii, Lib. vi, cap. 20, ? 2. — Kayserling. Biblioteca Espanola-Portugueza-Judaica, p. xi (Stras- bourg, 1890).
142 THE JEWS AND THE CONVERSOS [Book I baptism, unless beforehand he sent word that he wished to come for that pm-pose, when he was to be baptized at the port of entry and a notarial act was to be taken. That this savage edict was pitilessly enforced is manifested by several cases in 1500 and 1501.... Moreover, all masters of Jewish slaves were ordered to send them out of the country within two months, unless they would submit to baptism/ Spain was too holy a land to be polluted with the presence of a Jew, even in captivity.
In the absence of trustworthy statistics, all estimates of the number of victims must be more or less a matter of guess-work and consequently they vary with the impressions or imagination of the annalist. Bernaldez informs us that Rabbi Mair wrote to Abraham Senior that the sovereigns had banished 35,000 vassals, that is, 35,000 Jewish households, and he adds that, of the ten or twelve rabbis whom he baptized on their return, a very intelHgent one, named Zentollo of Vitoria, told him that there were in Castile more than 30,000 married Jews and 6000 in the kingdoms of Aragon, making 160,000 souls when the edict was issued, which is probably as nearly correct an estimate as we can find.^ With time the figures grew.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
— Isidore Loeb (Revue des Etudes Juives, 1887, p. 179). — Ilescas, Historia Pontifical, P. ii, Lib. vi, cap. 20, ? 2. — Kayserling. Biblioteca Espanola-Portugueza-Judaica, p. xi (Stras- bourg, 1890).
142 THE JEWS AND THE CONVERSOS [Book I baptism, unless beforehand he sent word that he wished to come for that pm-pose, when he was to be baptized at the port of entry and a notarial act was to be taken. That this savage edict was pitilessly enforced is manifested by several cases in 1500 and 1501.... Moreover, all masters of Jewish slaves were ordered to send them out of the country within two months, unless they would submit to baptism/ Spain was too holy a land to be polluted with the presence of a Jew, even in captivity.
In the absence of trustworthy statistics, all estimates of the number of victims must be more or less a matter of guess-work and consequently they vary with the impressions or imagination of the annalist. Bernaldez informs us that Rabbi Mair wrote to Abraham Senior that the sovereigns had banished 35,000 vassals, that is, 35,000 Jewish households, and he adds that, of the ten or twelve rabbis whom he baptized on their return, a very intelHgent one, named Zentollo of Vitoria, told him that there were in Castile more than 30,000 married Jews and 6000 in the kingdoms of Aragon, making 160,000 souls when the edict was issued, which is probably as nearly correct an estimate as we can find.^ With time the figures grew.
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