Idiomas
The association with Queen Esther
In all the region of Coimbra, Santa Isabel, or, as the people call her, the Holy Queen, is the object of the most successful Marrano Jewish or crypto-Jewish cult in …
Tomás de Torquemada
At his birth (1420, Torquemada, Castile, Spain) Tomás already had something to hide: his grandmother was a converso; a converted Jew; a New Christian. Spain had more converted Jews than …
The Sephardic Jews
By the end of the first century A. D. there were Jews all around the Mediterranean Sea and with the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the persecution of the Jews …
The Marranos Celebrate Yom Kippur in Amsterdam
Two ships were drifting helplessly in the North Sea. High winds and stormy seas damaged the rudders, and the ships were at the mercy of the storm. Fortunately, the ships …
The Jews of the Canary Islands – Calendar of calumny
Lucien Wolf was depicted in the history pages of the Zionist movement as one of those stumbling blocks that Chaim Weizmann had to bypass on his way to reaching the …
Portuguese Crypto Jews
Portugal and Madeira On August 19 1994, Haim Shapiro described in the “Jerusalem Post”, an ancient and secret Yom Kippur ritual still practised by Marrano families in northern Portugal. Women …
Jews in Cape Verde and on the Guinea Coast
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND IN PORTUGAL In Iberia the Reconquista movement was growing in its mission to recover their lands from the Muslim Moors who had first arrived in the 8th century. …
The Jews of St. Eustatius
St Eustatius [In Dutch: Sint Eustatius, and now named simply Statia] is one of the Netherlands Antilles islands, along with St Maarten, Saba, Curaçao, and Bonaire. The island earned a …
Cuba’s Jews Take Heart From First New Synagogue Since Revolution
CAMAGUEY, Cuba — Thirty-six years ago, Alberto Roffe’s grandfather dug a hole in this city’s only Jewish cemetery, lowered his community’s prayer books into it and covered the crypt with …