Tudor England, Religious Transformation, and Parallels to the Sephardic Converso Experience

I have been listening to a series of audio cds from the Teaching Company on Tudor and Stuart England. I … More

Free KINDLE Download: Conversos and the Sabbatean Movement

The topic of Conversos (Spanish and Portuguese Jewish converts to Christianity) and the attraction to the enigmatic figure of Sabbatai … More

Ketoret of Shacharit-Siddur Bircat Shelomo page 26 Posted by Rabbi Dr. Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez the director of the B’nei Anusim … More

There was a failure to instruct Conversos in the basic tenets of Christianity. This left them ignorant of anything more … More

For those who are interested in the historical and religious study of Conversos or Anusim, defining the following terms may … More

Rabbi David Solomon ibn Avi Zimra received an inquiry regarding an individual who claimed his Converso grandfather was a Cohen. … More

The matter of uncircumcised Conversos and their eligibility for marriage was also discussed in the responsum of Rabbi Benjamin Ben … More

The following rabbinic responsum further reveals how complicated the matter of circumcision could be among Conversos who had fled the … More

While he recognized the continuing theoretical validity of a Converso. i.e., a coerced Jewish convert to Christianity, to function as … More

Doña Gracia was probably introduced to many interested in the history of Spanish Jewry and Conversos by the work of Cecil … More