marranos
"Marranos" refers to individuals of Jewish heritage who publicly converted to Christianity in order to avoid persecution during the Spanish Inquisition and other anti-Semitic periods, while privately maintaining their Jewish practices and beliefs.
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Related Concepts (16)
- conversos
- crypto-judaism
- cultural assimilation
- expulsion of jews and muslims
- expulsion of jews from spain
- historical persecution of jews
- jewish diaspora
- jewish persecution in medieval europe
- marrano communities
- marrano identity struggles
- marrano refugees
- marrano surnames
- secret religious practices
- sephardic jews
- spanish ancestry and heritage
- spanish inquisition