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Leads and Candidates Before Publication

L1 leads point toward possible sources or routes. L2 candidates name proposed Inferpedia objects that still need source work, criticism, and review.

Hidden now: 134 L2 and 0 L1 terminal records.

Subject page: Medieval Jewish history

L1 Leads

View lead: Open Library / Archive.org: Conversos on Trial, Haim Beinart
L1 Lead Open Library Scholarly book 72 Metadata only Triaged

Open Library / Archive.org: Conversos on Trial, Haim Beinart

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Open Library lead for Beinart's monograph, with archive metadata for possible controlled consultation.

Bibliographic and access lead only; do not quote without rights/access review.

View lead: Google Books: Conversos on Trial, Haim Beinart
L1 Lead Google Books Scholarly book 72 Metadata only Triaged

Google Books: Conversos on Trial, Haim Beinart

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Book lead for Inquisition trial evidence from Ciudad Real and converso practice.

Use as a high-priority bibliographic lead; promote specific claims only after page-level evidence is checked.

View lead: Google Books: Communities of Violence, David Nirenberg
L1 Lead Google Books Scholarly book 78 Partial preview Triaged

Google Books: Communities of Violence, David Nirenberg

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Book lead for Crown of Aragon violence, minorities, and interpretive caution around persecution narratives.

Use for context and counterarguments after checking page-level claims.

View lead: Google Books: Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Norman Roth
L1 Lead Google Books Scholarly book 68 Metadata only Triaged

Google Books: Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Norman Roth

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Book lead covering conversos, the Inquisition, and expulsion as a broad secondary synthesis.

Treat as a synthesis lead; verify controversial arguments against specialist reviews and primary materials.

View lead: Google Books: Jews in an Iberian Frontier Kingdom, Mark D. Meyerson
L1 Lead Google Books Scholarly book 78 Partial preview Triaged

Google Books: Jews in an Iberian Frontier Kingdom, Mark D. Meyerson

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Book lead for aljama institutions, local administration, and Jewish communal officials in Valencia.

Good for institutional-pattern leads; promote only source-backed passages.

View lead: Brill front matter: Jews in an Iberian Frontier Kingdom
L1 Lead Web search Scholarly book 78 Partial preview Triaged

Brill front matter: Jews in an Iberian Frontier Kingdom

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Publisher front matter lead for Meyerson's Brill monograph.

Bibliographic control and table-of-contents lead; full argument requires book consultation.

View lead: JSTOR search: Disputation of Tortosa source layers
L1 Lead JSTOR Peer-reviewed index 78 Snippet Triaged

JSTOR search: Disputation of Tortosa source layers

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Search surface for peer-reviewed work on Tortosa's acta, Hebrew source layers, and polemical dossiers.

Lead only; promote only after article-level argument and citations are checked.

View lead: JSTOR search: limpieza de sangre genealogy witnesses
L1 Lead JSTOR Peer-reviewed index 78 Snippet Triaged

JSTOR search: limpieza de sangre genealogy witnesses

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Search surface for peer-reviewed work on blood-purity files, witness preparation, and genealogical proof.

Lead only; snippets can rank directions but cannot support publication.

View lead: JSTOR search: conversos, crypto-Judaism, ritual practice
L1 Lead JSTOR Peer-reviewed index 78 Snippet Triaged

JSTOR search: conversos, crypto-Judaism, ritual practice

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Search surface for scholarly corroboration of converso household practice.

Lead only; do not cite search result metadata as evidence.

View lead: Google Books search: limpieza de sangre, genealogy, witnesses
L1 Lead Google Books Scholarly book 62 Snippet Triaged

Google Books search: limpieza de sangre, genealogy, witnesses

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Search surface for books on witness preparation and genealogy in limpieza files.

Lead only; promote only after visible snippet, preview, or full text supports a claim.

View lead: Archive.org search: Disputation of Tortosa
L1 Lead Archive.org Archive digitization 64 Metadata only Triaged

Archive.org search: Disputation of Tortosa

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Search surface for digitized Tortosa studies and public-domain reference works.

Lead only until a specific item is selected and checked for rights and relevance.

View lead: The Medieval Review: Communities of Violence review
L1 Lead Scholarly abstract Scholarly book 66 Full text Triaged

The Medieval Review: Communities of Violence review

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Review lead for Nirenberg's book and its interpretive frame.

Use to choose whether to consult the book; do not substitute review claims for evidence.

View lead: Noetic prior: converso lacuna patterns
L1 Lead Noetic Noetic model prior 18 No external text Triaged

Noetic prior: converso lacuna patterns

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Model-internal historical prior that converso topics often yield logistics, document-preparation, and source-layer lacunae.

Use only to propose search directions. It is not attestation and should not support publication without external evidence.

L2 Candidates

L2 Candidate Inferred practice Published

Expulsion asset-conversion and passage intermediaries of 1492

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Merchants, ship agents, lenders, scribes, or local go-betweens inferred from the forced liquidation and travel logistics of the 1492 expulsion.

The decree allowed property sales but barred export of coined money and precious metal, while a near-contemporary account describes cheap sales, exchange into merchandise, ships arriving, and pledge loans.

L2 Candidate Lost text Published

Lost Zikhron ha-Shemadot behind Hebrew commentary transmission

Research area: Judaism pre-print-cultures database wave 2026-06-06

A rough source-reading candidate for Profiat Duran's lost Maamar Zikhron ha-Shemadot, visible through later Hebrew commentary and historiographical references.

The broad Hebrew commentary inferon explicitly includes Duran’s lost Maamar Zikhron ha-Shemadot; this is a bounded lost-text child suitable for source reading, not publication yet.

L2 Candidate Inferred practice Published

Converso ritual-supply channels in late medieval Spain

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

Recurring channels by which some converso households may have received Jewish calendar information, ritual foods, books, and instruction.

The Alhambra Decree describes calendrical notices, books, and ritual food moving between Jews and Christians, while secondary summaries of crypto-Judaism describe home ritual practice. The missing object is the practical support channel.

L2 Candidate Inferred source Verified

Don Mosse ibn Zarzal as a Jewish court surgeon-poet in the Baena source tradition

Codex source-reading decision from the pre-1550 title-prior lane.

The title is categorized as Conversos, 14th-century Castilian Jews, medieval Jewish poets, and 14th-century Castilian writers, but has only five outlinks and stub templates, suggesting a compact public page around a historically source-dependent person. Source title-prior route: route:9ca84a9f0b63612259601409d51c085af9e1c40d3cea6730.

L2 Candidate Inferred source Published

A Jewish response dossier behind the Tortosa disputation

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

A cluster of Jewish-side written responses, notes, memoranda, or source excerpts behind the surviving notices about the Disputation of Tortosa.

Reference works attest a joint memorandum and written declaration, while recent scholarship identifies Hebrew source layers and a papal request for written texts. The broader working dossier is not itself directly preserved in this seed bundle.

L2 Candidate Lost route Published_Beta

Princeton Geniza responsa document route split

Document-specific child route for medieval Jewish correspondence/responsa movement through Geniza records.

Split child of completed route 2548.

L2 Candidate Inferred practice Published_Beta

The preparation layer behind limpieza de sangre proofs

Research area: Jews and conversos in medieval Spain

The informal and semi-professional preparation work implied by recurring blood-purity proof files and witness interrogations.

Archival guides and conservation reports show repeated documentary requirements, witness questioning, baptismal records, approvals, and fees. The preparation work before the official file is mostly absent.

L2 Candidate Other Review_Needed

Zadok Amani attribution-compression inferon

Source-backed inferon for a medieval Jewish liturgical-poet attribution seam around Zadok Amani/Imani/Alamani name variants.

The shard contains one medieval Jewish poet page and multiple name-variant titles as separate entries. That title pattern points to a possible attestation and transliteration seam: variants may come from older encyclopedic or bibliographic sources but are not equally surfaced. Source title-prior route: route:ab69e53a4d00fe2de36e000d9c680895848d51e29b7e9bb2.