Sandra Malamed discusses and signs Return to Judaism: Descendents from the Inquisition Discovering Their Jewish Roots

Sandra Malamed discusses and signs Return to Judaism: Descendents from the Inquisition Discovering Their Jewish Roots. During the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal, many Jews were forcibly converted to the Catholic faith. During the 1990s, historian Sandra Malamed conducted a series of probing interviews with people of Spanish and Portuguese descent across the country and abroad, who considered themselves Christians or even non-believers, but who nonetheless practiced various Jewish traditions often without knowing where the traditions came from.