The following article by Marion Fischel examines the age old question regarding Miguel Cervantes family background. http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Did-Cervantess-family-have-Jewish-roots-319468 His masterpiece, Don … More
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Secret Files of the Spanish Inquisition
This post continues my posting of the series titled “Secret Files of the Inquisition” which begins with the Papal Inquisitions … More
The Responsa of the Ribash and the Jewish Status of Anusim
By Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez The practice of a Jewish community writing for guidance to a recognized rabbinic authority … More
History of the Conversos in Spain
This video is part of a Sephardic history series produced by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Dr. Benjamin Gampel … More
Why did Spanish Jews Convert to Christianity?
By Rabbi Dr. Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez Regarding the motivations or reasons why so many Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, … More
The Edicts of Expulsion
By Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez The reason for the edicts of Expulsion of the 15th century has given rise … More
The Jewish Status of Conversos and Rabbinic Responsa
By Rabbi J. Bejarano-Gutierrez Jews in the Iberian Peninsula were quite familiar with the phenomena of forced or coerced conversions. … More
What is a Marrano?
The term Marrano has often been used to designate Conversos who converted to Christianity for survival sake and continued to … More
The Divine Mission of Conversos
Whether or not Conversos were actually sincere converts to Christianity or in fact crypto Jews appears to have not been … More
Who is a Crypto Jew?
The history of the Jews of Spain spans more than a thousand years. It ended tragically in 1492 with the … More