Jewish Portuguese history

thumb|Saint Dominic anachronistically presiding over an auto de fe, by [[Pedro Berruguete (around 1495)]]

municipality of Portugal

Jodensavanne (Dutch, "Jewish Savanna") was a Jewish plantation community in Suriname, South America, and was for a time the centre of Jewish life in the colony. It was established in the 1600s by Sephardi Jews and became more developed and wealthy after a group of Jews fleeing persecution in Brazil settled there in the 1660s. It was located in what is now Para District, about south of the capital Paramaribo, on the Suriname River. Sugarcane plantations were established by forcing Black African people to work as slaves. At its height in around 1700, Jodensavanne was home to roughly 500 plantati

Crypto-Judaism is the secretive adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith. Practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (from the Greek word kryptos – , 'hidden').

system of tribunals enforcing Catholic orthodoxy

aspect of Jewish history

thumb | right | alt=Commemorative plaque of the Network of Jewish Quarters of Spain. Seville, Andalusia, Spain. | Commemorative plaque of the Network of Jewish Quarters of Spain. Seville, Andalusia, Spain. Sepharad ( or ; , ; also Sfard, Spharad, Sefarad, or Sephared) is the Hebrew-language name for the Iberian Peninsula, referring to the regions of present-day Spain and Portugal. By the 9th century, the term had come to denote this geographic area in Jewish usage. The designation Sephardic Jews refers to Jews whose ancestors lived in the Iberian Peninsula and were forcibly expelled beginning

expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Portugal

aspect of history

The lançados (literally, those who were thrown out) were settlers and colonizers of Portuguese origin in Senegambia, Cabo Verde, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and other areas on the coast of West Africa. Many were Jews—often New Christians—escaping persecution from the Portuguese Inquisition.

1553 Ladino translation of the Hebrew Bible

truck bombing in Belgium

aspect of history

contemporary Christian descendants of a historical Sephardic Jewish community