¶ Doreen Carvajal ends a bittersweet story about the chuetas of Majorca — Jewish families that pretended to be Christian in response to the Inquisition (which burned three of them alive in 1691) but that didn’t fool the neighbors, who taught their children a taunting rhyme containing fifteen surnames, including that of (did you know?) Joan Miró — with the rather ouchmaking news that 78-year old Bernat Pomar has recently undergone conversion to Judaism, if you know what we mean by that.

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