The world’s longest-running festival dealing with the Spanish Inquisition features a new play about a medieval murder mystery that was blamed on Jews in a blood libel.
The play, titled “Black Soul,” will be performed next week at the Los Conversos festival in the town of Hervas, in western Spain, some 125 miles east of the capital Madrid. Taking place for the 22nd consecutive year, the festival’s name means “The Converted” and it celebrates the culture, heritage and history of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were forced into Christianity after 1492.
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