Tomás de Torquemada (October 14, 1420 – September 16, 1498), also written in English as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Castilian Dominican friar. He was the first Grand Inquisitor^[1] in the Spanish Inquisition.^[1]

The Spanish Inquisition made thousands of Jews and Muslims leave Spain and many of them were killed by burning at stakes.^[2][3] Specialized historians found that as many as 300,000 Jews lost their lives to the Spanish Inquisition.^[2][3]

• Antisemitism
• Spanish Empire
• Supersessionism
• Antisemitism in Europe

• The Catholic Church
• The Secret of the Inquisition
• Antisemitism in History: From the Early Church to 1400
• Foundations of Holocaust: From Inquisition to “Purity of Blood”
• The Roman Catholic Church, the Holocaust, and the demonization of the Jews. Response to “Benjamin and us: Christanity, its Jews, and history” by Jeanne Favret-Saada

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