 In the context of the polarization between Protestants and Catholics during the second half of the 19th century, some of Lea's contemporaries, as well as most modern scholars thought Lea's work had an anti-Catholic bias.Starting in the 1920s, Jewish scholars picked up where Lea's work left off.They published Yitzhak Baer's "History of the Jews in Christian Spain", Cecil Roth's "History of the Marranos" and, after World War II, the work of Haim Beinart, who for the first time published trial transcripts of cases involving conversos.