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Marranos (mərä`nōs): see Sephardim Sephardim (səfär`dəm) ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the first place, the resettlement began not with avowed Jews but with marranos [here the author means crypto-Jews], who were fleeing the Iberian Peninsula. They are often referred to, somewhat derisively, as Crypto-Jews or Marranos, the latter meanings pig in Spanish. I am thinking, rather, of such folk as the medieval Marranos, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity under duress, and who maintained, some of them, a tense imbalance between a public Christianity and the private, home-bound Judaism they continued to observe. |
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