From Christianity to Judaism

Isaac Orobio de Castro, acrypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures ofthe Sephardi Diaspora in the seventeenth century. After studying medicine andtheology in Spain, and having pursued a distinguished medical career, he wasarrested by the Spanish Inquisition for practising Judaism, tortured, tired,and imprisoned. He subsequently emigrated to France and became a professor ofmedicine at the University of Toulouse before openly professing his Judaism andgoing to Am