Expulsion of Jews from Spain
The decision of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile to banish the Jews from Spain in 1492 with the Alhambra Decree, or the Edict of Expulsion.[1][2]
While Jews who converted to Christianity were not banished[source?], Tomás de Torquemada and the Spanish government still tortured many of them. They did not believe that the converted Jews were really Christian and killed many of them in the Spanish Inquisition,[1][2] a systematic campaign of persecution of Jews lasting from 1478 to 1834.[1][2]
Aftermath
[change | change source]As many as 300,000 Jews under Spanish rule were killed over false charges of "crypto-Judaism" in the 356 years of the Inquisition,[1][2] a charge slapped on Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism under Catholic Spanish rule.[1][2]
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
- Jacobs, Janet Liebman (2002). "Introduction: Crypto-Jewish Descent: An Ethnographic Study in Historical Perspective". Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (1 ed.). University of California Press. pp. 1–20. doi:10.1525/california/9780520233461.003.0001. ISBN 978-0-520-23346-1. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- Egmond, Florike; Zwijnenberg, Robert (2003). "Physicians' and Inquisitors' Stories? Circumcision and Crypto-Judaism in Sixteenth–Eighteenth-Century Spain". Bodily Extremities (1 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315261447-14 (inactive 12 December 2024). ISBN 9781315261447. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2024 (link) - Ward, Seth (2004). "Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition (review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 22 (4). University of Nebraska Press: 167–169. doi:10.1353/sho.2004.0117. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- Bodian, Miriam (2007). Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253348616. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- Kamen, Henry (May 27, 2014). The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300180510. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- "Five Things to Know About Antisemitism in Spain". American Jewish Committee (AJC). May 4, 2023. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
- Nogueiro, Inês; Teixeira, João; Amorim, António; Gusmão, Leonor; Alvarez, Luis (2015). "Echoes from Sepharad: signatures on the maternal gene pool of crypto-Jewish descendants". European Journal of Human Genetics. 23: 693–699. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
Published: 30 July 2014
- Castellano, Orge (November 9, 2020). "My Family Were Hidden Jews for Over 500 Years. Not Anymore". Hey Alma. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
My family lived in fear as Crypto-Jews, but I'm proudly breaking the family tradition.
- Schwartz, Yaakov (March 7, 2021). "Echoes of lost music haunt an Inquisition-era love story between two crypto-Jews". The Times of Israel. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
- Simnegar, Reyna (March 7, 2022). "The Spanish Inquisition and Me". Aish.com. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
- Reich, Aaron (August 23, 2022). "Crypto-Jews: What is the history of secret Jews? - explainer". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- Nogueiro, Inês; Teixeira, João; Amorim, António; Gusmão, Leonor; Alvarez, Luis (2015). "Echoes from Sepharad: signatures on the maternal gene pool of crypto-Jewish descendants". European Journal of Human Genetics. 23: 693–699. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
