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Marranos: A secret Passover Seder in Spain during the times of Inquisition.An 1893 painting by Moshe Maimon.. Marranos is a term for Spanish and Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity, either voluntarily or by Spanish or Portuguese royal coercion, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but who continued to practice Judaism in secrecy or were suspected of it.
Crypto-Jews presented a security threat to the Kingdom of Portugal, because Sephardic Jews had an established reputation in Iberia for joining forces with Moors to overthrow Christian rulers. [23] The Goan Inquisition commenced in 1560 and ended in 1812. It targeted crypto-Jews, crypto-Muslims, and crypto-Hindus.
Many fled to the kingdom of Portugal, whose monarch was more tolerant of a Jewish presence there. Portugal was the destination of most Jews who chose to leave Spain after their expulsion in 1492. Around 100,000 Spanish Jews had decided to move to the neighboring Kingdom of Portugal, a minor Jewish population was already residing in Portugal. [9]
The earliest sign relic of the Belmonte Jewish community is an inscribed granite reliquary dating to 1297, from the town's first synagogue. [2] Through the 15th and 16th century, there were a series of Inquisitions in Rome, Spain, and Portugal; the Spanish Inquisition of 1478 targeted conversos, Jews who had publicly renounced the Jewish faith and adopted Christianity, eventually expelling ...
Samuel Schwarz (12 February 1880 – 10 June 1953), or Samuel Szwarc, [a] was a Polish-Portuguese Jewish mining engineer, archaeologist, and historian of the Jewish diaspora, specifically of the Sephardic and crypto-Jewish communities of Portugal and Spain.
They were crypto-Jews and crypto-Muslims, falsely-converted Jews and Muslims who were secretly practising their old religions. Both were considered a security threat to the Portuguese, because Jews had an established reputation in Iberia for joining forces with Muslims to overthrow Christian rulers. [ 16 ]
Nationality Portugal Occupation(s) Army Captain, Writer, Jewish leader: Known for: Portuguese Dreyfus: Notable work: World War I war Hero, Founder Jewish Community of Porto, Assisted in the making of Kadoorie Synagogue, Helped Crypto-Jews return to Judaism, Helped Jewish refugees in World War II and founded and directed the Portuguese Jewish Newspaper called Ha-Lapid
The Jewish community likely lived in the area now known as Bairro de Marrocos and it prospered through trade. In 1492, Spain's expulsion of Jews may have contributed to a Jewish population growth. However, in 1496, King Manuel I decreed the forced conversion of Jews in Portugal, which led to the formation of a crypto-Jewish community in ...