Colleagues,
I have found a reference in a private letter (from 1936) to supposed
15th-century Hussite conversions to Judaism in Bohemia, in order
to avoid forced reconversion to Catholicism. The context was an
individual in Nazi germany trying to show that while his Bophemian
ancestors may have been religious Jews, there were not 'racially
Jewish'. The reference may be entirely spurious.
Has anyone ever heard of this and/or could give me a proper
reference?
Thanks,
Pól Ó Dochartaigh.
Dr Pol O Dochartaigh
Senior Lecturer in German
School of Languages and Literature
Faculty of Arts
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Co. Derry
BT52 1SA
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