Paola Tartakoff to present a Public Lecture: “Conspiring Against the Inquisition: A Tale of Revenge in Medieval Spain” on 2/6/14 5:30pm

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Please join us for a  SPECIAL LECTURE On Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 5:30 p.m.

in Library  Class of ’47 Room

 “Conspiring Against the Inquisition: A Tale of Revenge in Medieval Spain

Dr. Paola Tartakoff

Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies

Rutgers University

 

Paola Tartakoff is a social and cultural historian whose work primarily explores Jewish-Christian relations in Iberia, with a focus on religious conversion and the inquisitorial prosecution of Jews and converts. She is the author of Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (U Penn Press).

Sponsored by the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life and the Konover Chair of Judaic Studies.

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