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xv Acknowledgments To examine the sources that provided the raw material for this book, I have had recourse to a number of institutions, and invariably benefited from the expertise of their well-trained sta√s: the Bodleian Library at Oxford University; the Archivo Histórico Nacional in Madrid; the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid; the Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais/Torre do Tombo in Lisbon; the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City; the National and University Library in Jerusalem; the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts in Jerusalem (and its extraordinary living resource Benjamin Richler); the Pattee and Paterno Libraries at Pennsylvania State University (especially their interlibrary loan service); the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; the New York Public Library; the Special Collections division at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York; the library of the Union Theological Seminary in New York; and the Widener and Houghton Libraries at Harvard University. Thanks to a Visiting Skirball Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in Yarnton, England, I was able to spend many hours during the fall and winter of ∞ΩΩπ, during the early stages of this project, exploring scholarship on the history and phenomenology of martyrdom. Subsequent travel to foreign archives was facilitated by grants from the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia in Lisbon, as well as from the Research and Graduate Studies O≈ce of Pennsylvania State University. For their extraordinary hospitality during a memorable stay in Lisbon in ≤≠≠∞, I’d like to thank Pedro Cardim and Roberto Bachmann. I’m also grateful for leisurely conversations during that stay with Rita Marquilhas, Luisa Luzio, José Alberto Tavim, and Bill Donovan. Marco Ferrer, whom I met while he was conducting research at the Torre do Tombo, kindly supplied me with information from that archive after I had left. During briefer visits to Madrid, I profited from conversations with Jaime Contreras, James Amelang, and Harm den Boer. In summer ≤≠≠≥, I enjoyed the resources and collegiality of the Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, thanks to the generosity of its director David Ruderman. My gratitude, as well, to Kenneth Brown, who sent me his transcription of Lope de Vera’s trial records for comparison with mine, who o√ered me his advice on some di≈cult passages in that document, and who pro- xvi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vided me with a copy and transcription of documents he obtained in Cuenca relating to the case of Lope de Vera. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Sharon Mintz, Curator of Jewish Art at the Jewish Theological Seminary, whose incomparable knowledge of the visual riches of the seminary’s collections made possible the inclusion in the illustrations of some striking and little-known early modern Inquisition scenes. The maps in this volume were produced by Bill Nelson, with whom it was a pleasure to work silently in cyberspace. I’d also like to thank Lee Sandweiss, my editor at Indiana University Press, for shepherding the book through the early stages of production. My thanks, too, to the readers of the manuscript for Indiana University Press, whose comments and suggestions I’ve tried to incorporate. As the project winds down, I recall just how vital to its completion was the support that came from Ruth Wisse and Jay Harris, who made possible a blissfully unencumbered year on a Harry Starr Fellowship at the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies in ≤≠≠≥–≤≠≠∂. I would also like to express my heartfelt thanks to Janet Rabinowitch, who despite her demanding duties as director of Indiana University Press, and despite the various setbacks this project has su√ered, has o√ered continuing encouragement and advice. I’d particularly like to acknowledge the many friends, colleagues, and family members whose gifts of wisdom, hospitality, advice, and support transcend easy categories: Mira and Avi Ofran, Margery Davies and Arthur MacEwan, Claire Katz and Dan Conway, Bob and Judy Levy, David Berger, Murray Rosman, my sisters Brenda and Helen Bodian, my brother-in-law Roger Alcaly, my mother, Elinor Bodian, and my uncle Alfred Bodian. As the book goes to press, I’d also like to thank my new colleagues and students at the Graduate School for Jewish Studies at Touro College for providing a warm and convivial environment. Others who belong on this list know who they are, and will forgive me for not extending this paragraph much...

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