provoking the Protestant Reformation

Jerome Friedman has noted that “a New Christian [i.e., converso] problem affected not only Spain, but all of Europe,” and has suggested that the issue of Jewish conversion even played some role in provoking the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation and Jewish Antichristian Polemics.

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Many contemporary political figures, misguided in retrospect, viewed the granting of political privileges to Jews as a means of ensuring control and accountability.

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