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- Portugal where present-day descendants of marranos were interviewed about their lives. In 1974 for The Marranos of Portugal, the Israel Broadcasting Authority...
- essays on the Spanish Inquisition and the Marranos. He developed a theory according to which the Marranos converted to Christianity not under compulsion...
- who were generally known as Conversos (or in a more derogatory fashion Marranos), while the Muslim converts were called Moriscos. Because these conversions...
- Portuguese Jews who outwardly professed Catholicism, also known as Conversos, Marranos, or the ****im. The phenomenon is especially ****ociated with medieval Spain...
- near the major European sea ports like Amsterdam and London, helping the Marranos who were expelled from the Spanish Inquisition to rise up new merchant...
- his preparation for "The Marranos" he traveled to Spain to collect details of information to use. Maimon's painting "The Marranos" was long believed lost...
- to the middle of the 17th century, when records suggest that groups of marranos (Spanish and Portuguese descendants of baptized Jews suspected of secret...
- to Christianity to avoid antisemitic regulations and ****cution), the Marranos (people who were forced to abandon Judaism against their will by violence...
- broader phenomenon of the Marranos and studied it for its own sake. The result was another opus: The Other Within: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging...
- Christian baptism to remain in Spain. Many of them, derogatorily dubbed "Marranos" by the Old Christian majority, secretly kept some of their Jewish traditions...