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Susana Ben Susón, nicknamed La Susona, was a young Jewish convert from Seville and features in a legend. She was the daughter of don Diego Susón a Jewish convert . Jews were an oppressed minority in Seville in the late Middle Ages and in 1391 a violent pogrom in the Jewish quarter (la Judería) reduced the Jewish population of 500 families by ...
1.5 Conversos and the Inquisition. ... 3.2 The Sephardic diaspora and the Jewish identity ... there were less than 80,000. In Seville before the revolts of 1391 ...
A converso (Spanish: [komˈbeɾso]; Portuguese: [kõˈvɛɾsu]; feminine form conversa), "convert" (from Latin conversus 'converted, turned around'), was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.
[3] After the Massacre of 1391, many more Jews began to convert to Catholicism, giving rise to a substantial Marrano population. Strong Jewish cultural, familial, and ideological ties persisted among the conversos. Rabbinic authorities, categorizing conversos as anusim or "forced ones", affirmed their continued Jewish identity despite the ...
3.2.1 Expulsion of Jews and Jewish conversos. ... 3 1 ~1100 At least 3 Lima ... 1 106 111 Seville: 15 16 10 220 246 Toledo: 33 6 14
He returned to Spain in 1649 and lived first in Alcalá, then in Granada and, from 1651, in Seville, under the false name of Fernando de Zárate. The Spanish Inquisition had Gómez burned in effigy in Toledo on January 1, 1651, and in Seville on April 1660. On September 21, 1661 his true identity was discoverd and he was detained at his home in ...
Asevilli was born in the city of Seville, Spain around 1260. His name, Asevilli is itself a topographic surname that identifies him as being from Seville. [1] He was the student of Solomon ibn Adret and Aaron ha-Levy. His works suggest that he spent some time studying in France. He spent most of his life in Zaragoza. He died between 1314 and ...
The birth date of Diego Rodríguez de Lucero is unknown, but he seems to have been born in Moguer. [2] This was a region where many of the people were converts from Judaism or Islam, which perhaps helps explain his fanaticism. His parents were Juan Lucero and Marina Rodriguez. [3] He received a bachelor's degree in Law and a degree in Theology. [2]