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Found in the archives of the Toledo Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition, the dossiers in question pertain to the seventeenth century, a period for which documentation on the converso immigrants in France is very scarce. This historical romance centers on Hannah Green, a 14-year-old converso (a Jew who has ostensibly adopted Roman Catholicism) who has fled Spain and the Inquisition with her father, a bookseller and printer, to seek refuge in England. Thousands of conversos were burned at the stake by church inquisitors who treated "Jewish blood taint" as a contaminant irrespective of religious subscription, laying the grounds for the racialist anti-Semitism of Nazism. |
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