The book "Brief History of the Jews in Portugal", 6th edition, has been revised and expanded with a chapter on the Inquisition, resulting from the inquisitorial studies over the last 14 years. Coming soon to bookstores. Published by Ancora Editora.
Some histories of Portuguese Jews have already been published, all of them of a strong academic nature, but there was a lack of a comprehensive work, updated and accessible to the general public, aimed particularly at teachers and students, complementing or making up for the omissions in our school programs. Without hiding the fact that academic studies are sometimes difficult to access for non-specialized readers, we know that there is a natural appetite for knowledge. On the other hand, students, particularly university students, need initiatory approaches to get involved in historiographical themes. This is the objective of Brief History of the Jews in Portugal, which demonstrates to all readers that Portuguese Jews have a story to tell that is part of the History of Portugal itself.
Author
Jorge Martins, born in Lisbon (1953), has a PhD in History from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon with a thesis on Portuguese Jews (2006). Author of textbooks, works of fiction and essays, notably Jewish and inquisitorial studies, a topic to which he has dedicated himself for the last 24 years, on which he has published the following books: O Senhor Stolen, a Inquisição e a Questão Judaica, (2002); The Sacrilege of Odivelas (theater), (2003); Portugal and the Jews, 3 vols., (2006); Brief History of the Jews in Portugal, (2009); The Republic and the Jews, (2010); Maria Gomes, New Christian, 117 years old: the oldest victim of the Inquisition, (2012); Manteigas, My Homeland: the New Christians of Manteigas, vol. II, (2015); The Inquisition in Ourém, (2016); Judaism in Belmonte at the Time of the Inquisition, (2016); A Confitente (historical fiction), (2019); Portugal and the Jews, new edition, (2021); The Pessoa in the Inquisition. The Jewish and noble origins of Fernando Pessoa, (2022); The Monsanto Crypto-Jewish Community, (2022).
