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converso (Spanish: [komˈbeɾso]; Portuguese: [kõˈvɛɾsu];
feminine form conversa), "convert" (from
Latin conversus 'converted,
turned around'), was a Jew...
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specifically refers to the
charge of crypto-Judaism,
whereas the term
converso was used for the
wider po****tion of
Jewish converts to Catholicism, whether...
- San
Paolo Converso is a
former Roman Catholic church in Milan,
region of Lombardy, Italy, now
utilized as a
contemporary art space. The
church was constructed...
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thousands of
forced conversions,
torture and executions, the ****cution of
conversos and moriscos, and the m****
expulsions of Jews and
Muslims from Spain....
- politically, and
economically advantageous to
convert to
Catholicism (see
Converso, Morisco, and Marrano). The
existence of
superficial converts from Judaism...
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Castilian poet. Born Jewish, he
converted to
Christianity later in life. As a
converso or a
baptized Jew, he
married a
Christian woman named Jamila. Born in Valladolid...
- territories, initially,
converso immigration was
barred throughout much of Ibero-America.
Because of this, very few
converso immigrants in
Iberian American...
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examples are
Santo Daime, Candomblé, and Umbanda. Crypto-Jews or Marranos,
conversos, and ****im were an
important part of
colonial life in
Latin America....
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original Edicts of
Expulsion did not
apply to Jewish-origin New
Christian conversos —as
these were now
legally Christians— the
discriminatory practices that...
- and
Portuguese Jews who
outwardly professed Catholicism, also
known as
Conversos, Marranos, or the ****im. The
phenomenon is
especially ****ociated with...
