Marrano
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thumb|300px|Marranos: A secret Passover Seder in Spain during the times of Inquisition. An 1893 painting by [[Moshe Maimon.]] Marranos were Spanish and Portuguese Jews, as well as Navarrese Jews, who converted to Christianity, either voluntarily or by Spanish or Portuguese royal coercion, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but who continued to practice Judaism in secret or were suspected of it. They are also called crypto-Jews, a term increasingly preferred in scholarly works over Marranos.
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21 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Demographics
- Portugal
- Spain
- Inquisition
- Converso-Jewish relations
- Conversos in Italy
- Latin America
- France
- Estado da India (Portuguese India)
- Migrations
- Today
- In literature
- See also
- Jews in Iberia
- Related groups and concepts
- References
- Citations
- General and cited references
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|300px|Marranos: A secret Passover Seder in Spain during the times of Inquisition. An 1893 painting by [[Moshe Maimon.]] Marranos were Spanish and Portuguese Jews, as well as Navarrese Jews, who converted to Christianity, either voluntarily or by Spanish or Portuguese royal coercion, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but who continued to practice Judaism in secret or were suspected of it. They are also called crypto-Jews, a term increasingly preferred in scholarly works over Marranos.
The related term converso was used for the wider population of Jewish converts to Catholicism, whether or not they secretly still practised Jewish rites. Converts from either Judaism or Islam were referred to by the more general term "New Christians".