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Marranos

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Marranos (mərä`nōs): see Sephardim Sephardim (səfär`dəm)
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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.
Becoming Jewish in early modern France: documents on Jewish ... by Graizbord, David / Journal of Social History
They are often referred to, somewhat derisively, as Crypto-Jews or Marranos, the latter meanings pig in Spanish.
Shades of gray: a conservative Cuban rabbi takes on race issues that ... by Medina, Jennifer / Colorlines Magazine
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.
Among friends: my life as a Jew & a Quaker by Rubinstein, Ernest / Commonweal
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