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Alfred Rosenberg

Let it be added here that the confiscation of property that
was decided upon at this council had, as always, other reasons than
religious: the Jews of Spain had had a conspiracy to kill the king,
this was discovered and thereupon strict measures were ordered. 136
The Grand Inquisitor of Cordoba, Lucero, in his time one
of the most feared persecutors of heretics, was a Jew. The Jewish
historian Kayserling describes him in the following manner: "He
saw in everyone a heretic, a Jew, a knight, noble ladies, monks and
nuns, the most respected persons of all classes had been chosen by
him as victims of the stake. The cruelty of Lucero was proverbial in
Rome". 137 An assistant of this man was a Henriquez Nunez who,
introducing himself as a brother among the local Jews, reported
them all and drove them into the arms of the Inquisition. He then
operated in the Canary Islands and achieved such a fame in the art
oftorture that the King ofPortugal, on a recommendation, summoned
him to himself, where he additionally also did espionage service.
Johann Pfefferkorn was also a Jew, who spoke out in the
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16 century for the destruction of Jewish writings and for Jewish
persecution; Margaritha was also a Jew who composed, in 1330 a
work on "the religion of all the Jews" in which he campaigned against
its hypocritical piety. One of the most fanatical Jewish persecutors
was Abner of Burgos who had converted to Christianity, the "first
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of the anti-Semites in Castile". The infamous Pablo de Santa
Maria, Josua Lorqui, Fray Vicente and, above all, the greatest heretic
persecutors of all time, Torquemada, were similarly Jews.
In short, their interest for religious punishment was
doubtless very great. The Jew needed only to turn the point of his
Talmudic laws against his racial brothers and heretics - and behold
the Grand Inquisitor.

136
Jean de Sueur, Histoire de I'Eglise, VoI.VI, p.274. [The Histoire de Veglise et
de I 'empire of the Protestant pastor Jean le Sueur was published in six volumes in
Geneva in 1674.]
137
Sephardim, p. 129.
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Graetz, Geschichte der Juden, Vol.VIII, 317. [Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891)
was a Jewish historian who worked mostly in Breslau. His 1 1 volume Geschichte
der Juden von den altesten Zeiten bis aufdie Gegenwart was published between
1853 and 1875.]
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