A journey to Spain with Yitzhak Navon, the fifth president of the State of Israel. Episodes in the series: the Spanish connection, the Golden Age, the Balance of Terror, the Inquisition, the Maranos, 14, the Secret Jews of Portugal (a + b), the Eternal Jew of Majorca.
CD1:
EPISODE 1- THE SPANISH CONNECTIONA 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 AGEHOW 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 TERRORTHE RISE AND FALL OF THE JEWS IN CHRISTIAN SPAIN
CD2:
EPISODE 4 - THE MARRANOS AND THE INQUISITIONTHE INQUISITION’S REIGN OF TERROR: DENUNCIATION, TORTUE AND AUTOS DA FE.
EPISODE 5 - 1492NAVON 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?
CD3:
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 MAJORCATHE 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.