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Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam

I used this extensively during my dissertation to help draw a picture of life in the Amsterdam Jewish community that … More

Amsterdam, Anusim, Miriam Bodian, Portuguese Conversos, Portuguese Jews, Spanish Jews

Torah Reading for Vayigash- First Aliyah in the Spanish and Portuguese Melody.

The following is a practice run of the Torah Reading for Vayigash. This is the First Aliyah in the Spanish … More

Parashah Vayigash, Sephardic Torah Reading, Spanish Jews, Spanish Liturgy

A List of Recommended Books on the Sephardic Experience

I found an excellent list of books on the Sephardic experience. It was put together by David Shasha. E.H. Lindo, … More

Cecil Roth, David de Sola Pool, Isaac Orobio de Castro, Jews of Spain, Miriam Bodian, Portuguese Jews, Sephardic History, Spanish Jews, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Secret Jews: The Complex Identity of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Judaism

I am extremely happy to announce the release of my book titled Secret Jews: The Complex Identity of Crypto-Jews and … More

Anusim, Bnei Anusim, Conversos, Inquisition, Marranos, Secret Jews, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Jews

Coming Sephardic Lectures in the Dallas Area

For those in the Dallas area, the Jewish Federation of Dallas will be hosting a series of lectures on Saturday … More

Luis Caravajal, Medieval Jewish Poetry, Rabbi Mordechai Becher, Reid Heller, Spanish Jews

Song From a Withered Limb: Las Posadas and the Converso Crisis of the 16th Century

The following article was originally presented  at the national conference of the Society for Crypto Jewish Studies in Dallas, Texas … More

Anusim, Christianity, Conversos, Iberian Peninsula, Judaism, Las Posadas, Marranos, Reid Heller, Spain, Spanish Jews, Spanish-Portuguese Jews

Spanish Village Named “Kill the Jews” Changes Its Name

For regular readers of this blog, you are well aware of the long history of Jews living in the Iberian … More

Castrillo Mota de Judios, Iberian Peninsula, Sephardic Jewish History, Spanish Jews

A Fading Shavuot Tradition from Salonika

The Spanish and Portuguese exiles from the Iberian Peninsula  in the 15th and 16th centuries found rest in what might … More

Bread of Seven Heavens, Greek Jews, Portuguese Jews, Shavuot, Spanish Jews, Times of Israel, Turkish Jews

Forced Converts and Contemporary Coercion

The problem of conversion under physical duress may seem relevant to history of Spanish and Portuguese Jews forced to convert … More

Anusim, Forced Converts, Portuguese Jews, Rav Kook, Rav Yehuda Amital, Sanhedrin 5b, Spanish Jews, Tosafot

The Position of Spanish Jews as Royal Property

Religious issues aside, there was another issue which made Jews vulnerable in the late 14th and 15th centuries. As in … More

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, Aragon, Crisis and Regeneration: The Conversos of Majorca, 1391 - 1416, David Nirenberg, History of the Jews in Christian Spain, Jewish Communities of Castile, Kingdom of Aragon, Medieval Spanish Jews, Spanish Jews, Yitzhak Baer

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