Marranos: A Lost People
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Some people might call them New Jews, some New Christians, and others
call them Marranos. The majority of the world population has no idea who the
Marranos are. To begin to explain these secret people, one must first receive a
lesson in World History. We will begin in the 1492.
In school, we are b ....
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.... only putting on a front. They still considered themselves Jews.
They practiced in secret.1 The Spanish made every attempt to search out and
punish these conversos. Some Jews chose not to convert and they moved to
Portugal. . Unfortunately, Portugal, in 1497, expelled the Jews from its borders
as well. Anti-semitism was growing in Western Europe and the Jews needed to
escape. The prime choice seemed to be so obvious. The Jews went to the New World.
The immigration of the Marranos to the new ....
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