>> “He also wrote that no one who could say, I am a Jew, I have always been a Jew, and everyone has always known that I am a Jew, was ever punished by the Inquisition.” <<
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He was a fool and a liar!
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“He was a fool and a liar!”
James Michener, historian and historical novelist, was a fool and a liar.
I call that pretty bold talk.