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It targeted crypto-Jews, crypto-Muslims, and crypto-Hindus. Of the 1,582 persons convicted between 1560 and 1623, 45.2% were convicted for offenses related to Judaism and Islam. [ 24 ] A compilation of the auto-da-fé statistics of the Goa Inquisition reveal that a total of 57 persons were burnt in the flesh and 64 in effigy (i.e. a statue ...
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.
The Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies (SCJS) is an American non-profit organization that promotes historical research and contemporary developments concerning Sephardic Crypto-Jews and their descendants, who are part of the Jewish diaspora originating from Spain and Portugal that fled to the New World during the Inquisition. Founded in 1991 ...
Conversos (63 P) D. Dönmeh (4 P) S. Sabbateans (2 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Crypto-Jews" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
The European Central Bank hopes U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to support cryptocurrencies pegged to the U.S. dollar will speed up legislative backing for the digital euro, ECB board member ...
Illustration of Sabbatai Zevi from 1906 (Joods Historisch Museum). The Dönme (Hebrew: דוֹנְמֶה, romanized: Dōnme, Ottoman Turkish: دونمه, Turkish: Dönme) were a group of Sabbatean crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who were forced to convert to Islam, but retained their Jewish faith and Kabbalistic beliefs in secret.
Jewish conversos who still resided in Spain and frequently practiced Judaism in secret were suspected of being Crypto-Jews by the "Old Christians". The Spanish Inquisition generated much wealth and income for the church and individual inquisitors by confiscating the property of the persecuted.
The neofiti were descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism in 1493. They continued to secretly practice certain elements of Judaism, as did many of their descendants. In the 1490s, the Spanish Inquisition ruthlessly hunted the neofiti and many were tortured and executed, especially in Sicily. [1]