Marranos

E795492

Iberian Jews conversos crypto-Jews historical ethnic-religious group

Marranos were Iberian Jews who outwardly converted to Christianity under pressure during the late Middle Ages and early modern period while often secretly maintaining Jewish beliefs and practices.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
The Marranos of Spain	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Iberian Jews ⓘ conversos ⓘ crypto-Jews ⓘ historical ethnic-religious group ⓘ
accusedOf	Judaizing ⓘ
country	Kingdom of Aragon NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Castile NERFINISHED ⓘ Portugal ⓘ
descendants	Sephardi Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ crypto-Jewish communities in Latin America ⓘ crypto-Jewish communities in the American Southwest ⓘ
ethnicity	Jewish ⓘ
faced	confiscation of property ⓘ execution ⓘ imprisonment ⓘ torture ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Conversos NERFINISHED ⓘ Cristianos nuevos ⓘ Crypto-Jews of Iberia NERFINISHED ⓘ New Christians NERFINISHED ⓘ Secret Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Ladino ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
motivatedBy	legal pressure ⓘ religious persecution ⓘ social pressure ⓘ threat of death ⓘ threat of expulsion ⓘ
notablePractice	outward conformity to Catholic rites while maintaining Jewish identity in secret ⓘ
persecutedBy	Portuguese Inquisition NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish Inquisition NERFINISHED ⓘ
practicedInSecret	Jewish dietary laws ⓘ Jewish holidays ⓘ Jewish prayer ⓘ Jewish rituals ⓘ Sabbath observance ⓘ
region	Iberian Peninsula ⓘ
relatedTo	Alhambra Decree NERFINISHED ⓘ Portuguese forced conversions of 1497 ⓘ Spanish Expulsion of the Jews in 1492 NERFINISHED ⓘ
religionOutward	Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ
religionSecret	Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ
socialStatus	often discriminated against as New Christians ⓘ
subjectOf	Inquisition trials NERFINISHED ⓘ Jewish historical studies ⓘ studies of religious dissimulation ⓘ
timePeriod	early modern period ⓘ late Middle Ages ⓘ

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Iberian diaspora → hasRelatedConcept → Marranos ⓘ

The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain → relatedWork → Marranos ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Marranos of Spain