Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely...
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(also known more ambiguously as "Spanish and Portuguese Jews", "Spanish Jews", "Portuguese Jews" and "Jews of the Portuguese Nation") are the community of...
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Peninsula (Portugal and Spain). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Portuguese Jews emigrated to a number of European cities outside Portugal, where...
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Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews. This is a list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry. Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508), Portuguese-born Spanish philosopher...
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Crypto-Judaism (redirect from Crypto-Jews)
as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden'). The term is especially applied historically to Spanish and Portuguese Jews who outwardly...
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of the Portuguese Nation." The Portuguese-speaking community grew from conversos, Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in Spain and Portugal, who rejudaized...
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Marrano (redirect from Hidden Jews)
for Spanish and Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity, either voluntarily or by Spanish or Portuguese royal coercion, during the fifteenth and sixteenth...
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in the Netherlands. Some other Portuguese Jews, very few in number like the Belmonte Jews, opted for a different and radical solution, practicing their...
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The history of the Jews in Latin America began with conversos who joined the Spanish and Portuguese expeditions to the continents. The Alhambra Decree...
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Italy since Roman times; see below. Sephardi Jews, in particular Spanish and Portuguese Jews, i.e., Jews who arrived in Italy following their expulsion...
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