Journey to Spain with Yitzhak Navon, the fifth president of the State of Israel.
Documentary series in an 8-part series
- The Spanish Connection
- The Golden Age
- The Balance of Terror
- The Marranos and Inquisition
- 1492
- The Crypto-Jews of Portugal
- The Eternal Jew of Majorca
Scriptwriter and Director: Yigal Lossin
Language:English
NTSC ONLY
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EPISODE 1- THE SPANISH
CONNECTION
A HISTORICAL JOURNEY THROUGH SPAIN. YITZHAK NAVON, FIFTH
PRESIDENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE SCION OF SPANISH JEWISH EXILES, STRAYS
FROM THE BEATEN PATH AND REVEALS SOME AMAZING DISCOVERIES IN PLACES NOT FOUND ON
TOURIST MAPS.
EPISODE 2 - THE GOLDEN AGE
HOW THE
JEWS OF SPAIN EMERGED FROM THEIR ANONYMITY AND DEVELOPED THE WORLD’S FOREMOST
JEWISH SPIRITUAL CENTER OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
EPISODE 3 - THE BALANCE OF TERROR
THE
RISE AND FALL OF THE JEWS IN CHRISTIAN SPAIN
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EPISODE 4 - THE MARRANOS AND THE
INQUISITION
THE INQUISITION’S REIGN OF TERROR: DENUNCIATION, TORTUE AND
AUTOS DA FE.
EPISODE 5 - 1492
NAVON GLIMPSES
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE YEAR 1492 TRACING THE FOOTSTEPS OF DON AVRAHAM SENEOR,
THE ROYAL RABBI, MOST FAMOUS OF ALL JEWISH APOSTATES OF 1492. HE UNCOVERS THE
ROLE OF THE MARRANOS IN THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA AND TACKLES THE QUESTION THAT
CONCERNS SO MANY SPANIARDS: WAS COLUMBUS A JEW?
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EPISODE 6 - THE CRYPTO-JEWS OF
PORTUGAL (A)
THE MARRANOS OF PORTUGAL RESISTED THE INQUISITION WITH FAR MORE
VIGOR AND PERSISTENCE THAN THEIR SPANISH COUNTERPARTS. IN FACT, SINCE THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY, NEARLY ALL OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES AMONG THE MARRANOS WERE
OF PORTUGUESE ORIGIN.
EPISODE 7 - THE CRYPTO-JEWS OF PORTUGAL
(B)
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS OF PORTUGAL,
THE INQUISITION CONTINUES TO IMPRISON, TORTURE AND BURN THEIR DESCENDANTS AT THE
STAKE.
EPISODE 8 - THE ETERNAL JEW OF
MAJORCA
THE CHUETAS, THE MARRANOS OF MAJORCA, ARE NOT CRYPTO-JEWS: THEIR
FOREFATHERS ABANDONED JUDAISM THERE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. ALTHOUGH THEY CONSIDER
THEMSELVES TO BE SOLID, LOYAL CHRISTIANS, THEY ARE STILL CALLED JEWS – AND HATES
AS JEWS – BY THEIR NEIGHBORS.
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