By Rabbi Dr. Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez Regarding the motivations or reasons why so many Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, … More
Category: Crypto-Jewish History
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
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