en.unionpedia.org

Sephardic Bnei Anusim, the Glossary

Sephardic Bnei Anusim (בני אנוסים ספרדיים,, lit. "Children coerced Spanish) is a modern term which is used to define the contemporary Christian descendants of an estimated quarter of a million 15th-century Sephardic Jews who were coerced or forced to convert to Catholicism during the 14th and 15th centuries in Spain and Portugal.^[1]

192 relations: Ab initio, Acaraú River, Alhambra Decree, Aliyah, Altos de Jalisco, Amazon basin, Amazonian Jews, American Jews, Anusim, Arabic, Ashkenazi Jews, Autosome, Álvarez (surname), Beersheba, Belmonte, Portugal, Beth din, Bnei Brak, Brooklyn, Castro (surname), Catholic Church, Ceará, Center for Equal Opportunity, Chennai, Christianity, Class discrimination, Cochin Jews, Colorado, Conquistador, Conversion to Christianity, Conversion to Judaism, Converso, Cordova (surname), Costa (surname), Criollo people, Crypto-Judaism, Cultural assimilation, Curaçao, De León (surname), Death by burning, Degredado, DNA, Elihu Yale, Endogamy, Eric Arturo Delvalle, Fernández, Festival of Santa Esterica, Forced conversion, Fort St. George, India, Fox News, Francis Xavier, ... Expand index (142 more) »
Jewish Portuguese history
People of Sephardic-Jewish descent

Ab initio

Ab initio is a Latin term meaning "from the beginning" and is derived from the Latin ab ("from") + initio, ablative singular of initium ("beginning").

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Ab initio

Acaraú River

The Acaraú River is a river of Ceará state in eastern Brazil.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Acaraú River

Alhambra Decree

The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Alhambra Decree are Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Alhambra Decree

Aliyah

Aliyah (עֲלִיָּה ʿălīyyā) is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the State of Israel.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Aliyah

Altos de Jalisco

The Altos de Jalisco, or the Jaliscan Highlands, is a geographic and cultural region in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Jalisco, famed as a bastion of Mexican culture, cradling traditions from Tequila production to Charrería equestrianism.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Altos de Jalisco

Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Amazon basin

Amazonian Jews

Amazonian Jews (judeus da Amazônia; judíos de la Amazonia; translit; ג׳ודיוס די אמאזוניה, djudios de Amazonia) are the Jews of the Amazon basin, mainly descendants of Moroccan Jews who migrated to northern Brazil and Peru in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Amazonian Jews are Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Amazonian Jews

American Jews

American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and American Jews

Anusim

Anusim (אֲנוּסִים,; singular male, anús, אָנוּס; singular female, anusáh,, meaning "coerced") is a legal category of Jews in halakha (Jewish law) who were forced to abandon Judaism against their will, typically while forcibly converted to another religion.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Anusim

Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Arabic

Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Ashkenazi Jews are Jewish ethnic groups.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Ashkenazi Jews

Autosome

An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Autosome

Álvarez (surname)

Álvarez (sometimes Alvarez) is a Spanish surname of Germanic origin, a patronymic meaning "son of Álvaro".

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Álvarez (surname)

Beersheba

Beersheba, officially Be'er-Sheva (usually spelled Beer Sheva; Bəʾēr Ševaʿ,; Biʾr as-Sabʿ), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Beersheba

Belmonte, Portugal

Belmonte is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco, Portugal. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Belmonte, Portugal are Jewish Portuguese history.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Belmonte, Portugal

Beth din

A beth din (house of judgment,, Ashkenazic: beis din, plural: batei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Beth din

Bnei Brak

Bnei Brak or Bene Beraq (בְּנֵי בְּרַק) is a city located on the central Mediterranean coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Bnei Brak

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Brooklyn

Castro (surname)

Castro is a Castilian surname popular in Spanish and Portuguese countries, coming from Latin castrum, meaning a castle or fortress.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Castro (surname)

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Catholic Church

Ceará

Ceará is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Ceará

Center for Equal Opportunity

The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) is an American conservative think tank whose mission is to study, develop, and disseminate ideas that promote colorblind equal opportunity and oppose affirmative action in America.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Center for Equal Opportunity

Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Chennai

Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Christianity

Class discrimination

Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Class discrimination

Cochin Jews

Cochin Jews (also known as Malabar Jews or Kochinim from) are the oldest group of Jews in India, with roots that are claimed to date back to the time of King Solomon. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Cochin Jews are Jewish ethnic groups.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Cochin Jews

Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Colorado

Conquistador

Conquistadors or conquistadores (lit 'conquerors') was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonialists of the early modern period.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Conquistador

Conversion to Christianity

Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Conversion to Christianity

Conversion to Judaism

Conversion to Judaism (translit or translit) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion and become members of the Jewish ethnoreligious community. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Conversion to Judaism are Judaism-related controversies.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Conversion to Judaism

Converso

A converso (feminine form conversa), "convert", was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and converso are Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Converso

Cordova (surname)

Cordova or Córdova is a Spanish surname.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Cordova (surname)

Costa (surname)

Costa, sometimes Costas, da Costa, Da Costa, or Dalla Costa, is an Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, French, and Greek mostly toponymic surname.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Costa (surname)

Criollo people

In Hispanic America, criollo is a term used originally to describe people of full Spanish descent born in the viceroyalties.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Criollo people

Crypto-Judaism

Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden'). Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Crypto-Judaism are Jewish Portuguese history, Judaism-related controversies and Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Crypto-Judaism

Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Cultural assimilation

Curaçao

Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Curaçao

De León (surname)

De León or de León or De Leon is a Spanish origin surname, often toponymic, in which case it may possibly indicate an ultimate family origin in the Kingdom of León or the later Province of León.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and De León (surname)

Death by burning

Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Death by burning

Degredado

Degredado is the traditional Portuguese term for an exiled convict, especially between the 15th and 18th centuries.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Degredado

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and DNA

Elihu Yale

Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator and philanthropist.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Elihu Yale

Endogamy

Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Endogamy

Eric Arturo Delvalle

Eric Arturo Delvalle Cohen-Henríquez (2 February 1937 – 2 October 2015) was a Panamanian politician.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Eric Arturo Delvalle

Fernández

Fernández is a Spanish patronymic surname meaning "son of Fernando" of Germanic origin.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Fernández

Festival of Santa Esterica

The Festival of Santa Esterica is a holiday that was created as a substitute for Purim by the Anusim (also known as "conversos", Sephardi Jews forced to convert to Catholicism) after their expulsion from Spain in the late 15th century.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Festival of Santa Esterica

Forced conversion

Forced conversion is the adoption of a religion or irreligion under duress.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Forced conversion

Fort St. George, India

Fort St.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Fort St. George, India

Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Fox News

Francis Xavier

Francis Xavier, SJ (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: Franciscus Xaverius; Basque: Frantzisko Xabierkoa; French: François Xavier; Spanish: Francisco Javier; Portuguese: Francisco Xavier; 7 April 15063 December 1552), venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was born in Navarre, Spain Catholic missionary and saint who co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian mission to Japan.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Francis Xavier

Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira

Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira, or simply Gaspar de Leão Pereira or Gaspar de Leão (Lagos - Goa, 15 August 1576) was the first Archbishop of Goa.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira

Gómez

Gómez (frequently anglicized as Gomez) is a common Spanish patronymic surname of Germanic origin meaning "son of Gome".

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Gómez

Genealogical DNA test

A genealogical DNA test is a DNA-based genetic test used in genetic genealogy that looks at specific locations of a person's genome in order to find or verify ancestral genealogical relationships, or (with lower reliability) to estimate the ethnic mixture of an individual.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Genealogical DNA test

Genealogy

Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Genealogy

Gentile

Gentile is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Gentile

Geography of Peru

Peru is a country on the central western coast of South America facing the Pacific Ocean.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Geography of Peru

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and George W. Bush

German name

Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (Vorname, plural Vornamen) and a surname (Nachname, Familienname).

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and German name

Given name

A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Given name

Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Goa

Goa Inquisition

The Goa Inquisition (Inquisição de Goa) was an extension of the Portuguese Inquisition in Portuguese India.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Goa Inquisition

Goldberg (surname)

Goldberg is a surname of German or Yiddish origin, meaning 'gold mountain', which is common among Ashkenazi Jews.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Goldberg (surname)

González (surname)

González is a Spanish surname of Germanic origin, the second most common (2.16% of the population) in Spain, as well as one of the five most common surnames in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, and Venezuela, and one of the most common surnames in the entire Spanish-speaking world.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and González (surname)

Hakham

Hakham (or Chakam(i), Haham(i), Hacham(i), Hach; Wise) is a term in Judaism meaning a wise or skillful man; it often refers to someone who is a great Torah scholar. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Hakham are Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Hakham

Halakha

Halakha (translit), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho, is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Halakha

Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Hebrew language

Hispania

Hispania (Hispanía; Hispānia) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Hispania

Hispanic

The term Hispanic (hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad broadly.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Hispanic

Hispanic America

The region known as Hispanic America (Hispanoamérica or América Hispana) and historically as Spanish America (América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Hispanic America

Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanophone

Hispanophone refers to anything related to the Spanish language.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Hispanophone

History of responsa in Judaism

The history of responsa in Judaism (Hebrew: שאלות ותשובות, Sephardic: She'elot Utshuvot, Ashkenazic: Sheilos Utshuvos, usually shortened to שו"ת Shu"t), spans a period of 1,700 years.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and History of responsa in Judaism

History of the Jews in Argentina

The history of the Jews in Argentina goes back to the early sixteenth century, following the expulsion of Jews from Spain.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and History of the Jews in Argentina

History of the Jews in Belmonte

The history of the Jewish community in Belmonte, Portugal, dates back to the 13th century; the community was composed of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who kept their faith through crypto-Judaism. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and history of the Jews in Belmonte are Jewish Portuguese history and Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and History of the Jews in Belmonte

History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire

By the time the Ottoman Empire rose to power in the 14th and 15th centuries, there had been Jewish communities established throughout the region.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Iberian Peninsula

Ibero-America

Ibero-America (Iberoamérica, Ibero-América) or Iberian America is generally considered to be the region in the Americas comprising countries or territories where Spanish or Portuguese are predominant languages (usually former territories of Portugal or Spain).

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Ibero-America

Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Identity (social science)

Interfaith marriage

Interfaith marriage, sometimes called interreligious marriage or "mixed marriage", is marriage between spouses professing different religions.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Interfaith marriage

Iquitos

Iquitos is the capital city of Peru's Maynas Province and Loreto Region.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Iquitos

Israeli citizenship law

Israeli citizenship law details the conditions by which a person holds citizenship of Israel.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Israeli citizenship law

Israelites

The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Israelites

Jaguaribe River

The Jaguaribe River is a highly seasonal river in Ceará state of northeastern Brazil.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Jaguaribe River

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Jerusalem

Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Jesus

Jewish Agency for Israel

The Jewish Agency for Israel (translit), formerly known as the Jewish Agency for Palestine, is the largest Jewish non-profit organization in the world.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Jewish Agency for Israel

Jewish culture

Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people, from its formation in ancient times until the current age.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Jewish culture

Jewish ethnic divisions

Jewish ethnic divisions refer to many distinctive communities within the world's Jewish population. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Jewish ethnic divisions are Jewish ethnic groups.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Jewish ethnic divisions

Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Jews

Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Judaism

Lançados

The lançados (literally, the thrown out onesPardue 2015: p. 42 or the cast out ones) were settlers and colonizers of Portuguese origin in Senegambia, Cabo Verde, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and other areas on the coast of West Africa. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and lançados are Jewish Portuguese history.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Lançados

Laron syndrome

Laron syndrome (LS), also known as growth hormone insensitivity or growth hormone receptor deficiency (GHRD), is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a lack of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1; somatomedin-C) production in response to growth hormone (GH; hGH; somatotropin).

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Laron syndrome

Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Latin America

Law of Return

The Law of Return (חוק השבות, ḥok ha-shvūt) is an Israeli law, passed on 5 July 1950, which gives Jews, people with one or more Jewish grandparent, and their spouses the right to relocate to Israel and acquire Israeli citizenship.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Law of Return

López

López or Lopez is a surname of Spanish origin.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and López

Leon (surname)

León is a Spanish surname.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Leon (surname)

Levite

Levites (Lǝvīyyīm) or Levi are Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Levite are Jewish ethnic groups.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Levite

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Library of Congress

Lima

Lima, founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (Spanish for "City of Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Lima

Limpieza de sangre

Limpieza de sangre, also known as limpeza de sangue or neteja de sang, literally 'cleanliness of blood' and meaning 'blood purity', was a racially discriminatory term used in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires during the early modern period to refer to those who were considered to be Old Christians by virtue of not having Muslim, Jewish, Romani, or Agote ancestors.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Limpieza de sangre

Linda Chavez

Linda Lou ChavezStated on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., May 20, 2012, PBS (born June 17, 1947) is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Linda Chavez

Lineage (anthropology)

In anthropology, a lineage is a unilineal descent group that traces its ancestry to a demonstrably shared ancestor, known as the apical ancestor.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Lineage (anthropology)

Loja, Ecuador

Loja, formerly Loxa and fully City of the Immaculate Conception of Loja (Ciudad de la Inmaculada Concepción de Loja), is the capital of Ecuador's Loja Province.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Loja, Ecuador

Luna (name)

Luna is a feminine given name of Latin origin, meaning moon.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Luna (name)

Maduro

Maduro is a surname.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Maduro

Maghrebi Jews

Maghrebi Jews (or, Maghrebim) or North African Jews (Yehudei Tzfon Africa) are an ethnic group of Jews who had traditionally lived in the Maghreb region of North Africa (al-Maghrib, Arabic for "the west") under Arab rule during the Middle Ages.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Maghrebi Jews

Marital conversion

Marital conversion is religious conversion upon marriage, either as a conciliatory act, or a mandated requirement according to a particular religious belief.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Marital conversion

Marrano

Marranos is one of the terms used in relation to Spanish and Portuguese Jews who converted or were forced by the Spanish and Portuguese crowns to convert to Christianity during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy or were suspected of it, referred to as Crypto-Jews. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Marrano are Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Marrano

Max Delvalle

Max Delvalle Levy-Maduro (February 27, 1911 – December 20, 1979) was a Panamanian politician who served as vice president from 1964 to 1968 and briefly served as acting president in 1967.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Max Delvalle

Mendes

Mendes (Μένδης, gen.), the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian city of Djedet, also known in ancient Egypt as Per-Banebdjedet ("The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet") and Anpet, is known today as Tell El-Ruba (تل الربع).

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Mendes

Messianic Judaism

Messianic Judaism (יַהֲדוּת מְשִׁיחִית or יהדות משיחית|rtl.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Messianic Judaism

Mestizo

Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Mestizo

Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Mexico City

Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Middle Ages

Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews (יהודי המִזְרָח), also known as Mizrahim (מִזְרָחִים) or Mizrachi (מִזְרָחִי) and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach (עֲדוֹת־הַמִּזְרָח), are terms used in Israeli discourse to refer to a grouping of Jewish communities that lived in the Muslim world. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Mizrahi Jews are Jewish ethnic groups.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Mizrahi Jews

Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Morocco

Mulatto

Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Mulatto

Netanya

Netanya (also Natanya, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Netanya

New Christian

New Christian (Novus Christianus; Cristiano Nuevo; Cristão-Novo; Cristià Nou; Kristiano muevo) was a socio-religious designation and legal distinction in the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and New Christian are Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and New Christian

New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and New Mexico

New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and New York City

Nicolás Maduro

Nicolás Maduro Moros (born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician who has served as the 53rd President of Venezuela since 2013.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Nicolás Maduro

Nissim Karelitz

Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz (נסים קרליץ; July 19, 1926 – October 21, 2019) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and posek who served as the chairman of the beis din tzedek (rabbinical court) of Bnei Brak.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Nissim Karelitz

North macroregion, Peru

The North macroregion in Peru is a geographic area that includes a number of regions located in northern the country.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and North macroregion, Peru

Northeast Region, Brazil

The Northeast Region of Brazil (Região Nordeste do Brasil) is one of the five official and political regions of the country according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Northeast Region, Brazil

Nuevo León

Nuevo León (English: New León), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León) is a state in northeastern Mexico.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Nuevo León

Old Christian

Old Christian (cristiano viejo, cristão-velho, cristià vell) was a social and law-effective category used in the Iberian Peninsula from the late 15th and early 16th century onwards, to distinguish Portuguese and Spanish people attested as having cleanliness of blood, known as Limpieza de sangre, from the populations categorized as New Christian.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Old Christian

Oliveira (surname)

Oliveira is a Spanish and Portuguese surname, used in Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries, and to a lesser extent in former Spanish and Portuguese colonies.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Oliveira (surname)

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Ottoman Empire

Palma de Mallorca

Palma, also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Palma de Mallorca

Paradigm

In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Paradigm

Passing (sociology)

Passing is the ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category, such as racial identity, ethnicity, caste, social class, sexual orientation, gender, religion, age and/or disability status, that is often different from their own.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Passing (sociology)

Patriarchate of the East Indies

The Titular Patriarch of the East Indies (Patriarcha Indiarum Orientalium; Patriarchatus Indiarum Orientalium for Titular Patriarchate of the East Indies) in the Catholic hierarchy is the title of the Archbishop of Goa and Daman in India; another of his titles is the Primate of the East.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Patriarchate of the East Indies

Pérez

Pérez is a very common Castilian Spanish surname of patronymic origin.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Pérez

Pedro Cieza de León

Pedro Cieza de León (Llerena, Spain c. 1518 or 1520 – Seville, Spain July 2, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru and Popayán.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Pedro Cieza de León

Peretz

The Jewish name Peretz (Hebrew פרץ) may refer to the following people: in the Hebrew Bible.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Peretz

Perjury

Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Perjury

Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Peru

Phillippe de Oliveira

Phillippe de Oliveira or Filipe de Oliveira (died 1627) was the conqueror of the Jaffna Kingdom in northern modern day Sri Lanka on behalf of the Portuguese Empire in 1619.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Phillippe de Oliveira

Pope Alexander VI

Pope Alexander VI (born Rodrigo de Borja; 1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503) (epithet: Valentinus ("The Valencian")) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 August 1492 until his death in 1503. Born into the prominent Borgia family in Xàtiva in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon (now Spain), Rodrigo studied law at the University of Bologna.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Pope Alexander VI

Population decline

Population decline, also known as depopulation, is a reduction in a human population size.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Population decline

Population genetics

Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and among populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Population genetics

Portuguese Inquisition

The Portuguese Inquisition (Portuguese: Inquisição Portuguesa), officially known as the General Council of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Portugal, was formally established in Portugal in 1536 at the request of King John III. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Portuguese Inquisition are Jewish Portuguese history and Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Portuguese Inquisition

Portuguese name

A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family surname and the father's family surname (rarely only one surname, sometimes more than two).

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Portuguese name

Print syndication

Print syndication distributes news articles, columns, political cartoons, comic strips and other features to newspapers, magazines and websites.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Print syndication

Proselytism

Proselytism is the policy of attempting to convert people's religious or political beliefs.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Proselytism

Pundit

A pundit is a learned person who offers opinion in an authoritative manner on a particular subject area (typically politics, the social sciences, technology or sport), usually through the mass media.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Pundit

Purim

Purim (see Name below) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from annihilation at the hands of an official of the Achaemenid Empire named Haman, as it is recounted in the Book of Esther (usually dated to the 5th century BCE).

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Purim

Rabbi

A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Rabbi

Rabbinic Judaism

Rabbinic Judaism (יהדות רבנית|Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Rabbanite Judaism, has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian Talmud.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Rabbinic Judaism

Racism

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Racism

Río de la Plata Basin

The Río de la Plata basin (Cuenca del Plata, Bacia do Prata), more often called the River Plate basin in scholarly writings, sometimes called the Platine basin or Platine region, is the hydrographical area in South America that drains to the Río de la Plata.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Río de la Plata Basin

Religious conversion

Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Religious conversion

Ricardo Maduro

Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest (born 20 April 1946 in Panama) is a Honduran politician who served as President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Ricardo Maduro

Rivera

Rivera is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Rivera

Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Saint

Salazar (surname)

Salazar is a surname meaning old farmhouse (from Basque Sarasaitzu, which then evolved to "Sarasaz," and then to the modern, Castillian form "Salazar").

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Salazar (surname)

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Sanjay Subrahmanyam (born 21 May 1961) is a historian of the early modern period.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the Santa Cruz department.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Secularity

Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Secularity

Sepharad

Sepharad (or;,; also Sfard, Spharad, Sefarad, or Sephared) is the Hebrew-language name for the Iberian Peninsula, consisting of both modern-time Western Europe's Spain and Portugal, especially in reference to the local Jews before their forced expulsion from 1492 onwards. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Sepharad are Jewish Portuguese history and Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Sepharad

Sephardic Jews

Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Sephardic Jews are Jewish ethnic groups and Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Sephardic Jews

Seridó

São Vicente do Seridó is a municipality in Paraíba state in the Northeast Region of Brazil.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Seridó

Settler

A settler is a person who has immigrated to an area and established a permanent residence there.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Settler

Shavei Israel

Shavei Israel (שבי ישראל, Returners of Israel) is an Israel-based Jewish organization that encourages people of Jewish descent to strengthen their connection with Israel and the Jewish people.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Shavei Israel

Sinagoga

Sinagoga is a settlement in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Sinagoga

Slavic names

Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Slavic names

South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and South America

Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Southwestern United States

Spanish and Portuguese Jews

Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the few centuries following the forced expulsion of unconverted Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Spanish and Portuguese Jews are Jewish ethnic groups and Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Spanish and Portuguese Jews

Spanish Inquisition

The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Spanish Inquisition are Judaism-related controversies and Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Spanish Inquisition

Spanish naming customs

Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Spanish naming customs

Status quo

italic is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social, economic, legal, environmental, political, religious, scientific or military issues.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Status quo

Surname

A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Surname

Synagogue

A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Synagogue

Syncretism

Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Syncretism

Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Syria

Syrian Jews

Syrian Jews (יהודי סוריה Yehudey Surya, الْيَهُود السُّورِيُّون al-Yahūd as-Sūriyyūn, colloquially called SYs in the United States) are Jews who live in the region of the modern state of Syria, and their descendants born outside Syria. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Syrian Jews are Jewish ethnic groups and Sephardi Jews topics.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Syrian Jews

Takkanah

A takkanah (taqqānā, plural takkanot) translated as 'improvement', is a major legislative enactment within halakha, the normative system of Judaism's laws.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Takkanah

The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and The Jerusalem Post

The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and The New York Times

Torres (surname)

Torres (sometimes Torrez or Torrès) is a surname in the Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish languages, meaning "towers".

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Torres (surname)

Treaty of Tordesillas

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Treaty of Tordesillas

Tribe of Judah

According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe of Judah (Shevet Yehudah) was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel, named after Judah, the son of Jacob.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Tribe of Judah

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and University of California, Los Angeles

World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and World War I

Xueta

The Xuetes (singular Xueta, also known as Xuetons and spelled as Chuetas) are a social group on the Spanish island of Majorca, in the Mediterranean Sea, who are descendants of Majorcan Jews that either were conversos (forcible converts to Christianity) or were Crypto-Jews, forced to keep their religion hidden.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Xueta

Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Yale University

YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and YouTube

Zaruma

Zaruma, officially Villa Real de San Antonio del Cerro de Oro de Zaruma is a town in the south of Ecuador, El Oro Province.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Zaruma

Zera Yisrael

Zera Yisrael (lit), known also as Zera Kadosh is a legal category in Halakha that denotes the blood descendants of Jews who, for one reason or another, are not legally Jewish according to religious criteria. Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Zera Yisrael are Judaism-related controversies.

See Sephardic Bnei Anusim and Zera Yisrael

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardic_Bnei_Anusim

, Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira, Gómez, Genealogical DNA test, Genealogy, Gentile, Geography of Peru, George W. Bush, German name, Given name, Goa, Goa Inquisition, Goldberg (surname), González (surname), Hakham, Halakha, Hebrew language, Hispania, Hispanic, Hispanic America, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanophone, History of responsa in Judaism, History of the Jews in Argentina, History of the Jews in Belmonte, History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Iberian Peninsula, Ibero-America, Identity (social science), Interfaith marriage, Iquitos, Israeli citizenship law, Israelites, Jaguaribe River, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jewish Agency for Israel, Jewish culture, Jewish ethnic divisions, Jews, Judaism, Lançados, Laron syndrome, Latin America, Law of Return, López, Leon (surname), Levite, Library of Congress, Lima, Limpieza de sangre, Linda Chavez, Lineage (anthropology), Loja, Ecuador, Luna (name), Maduro, Maghrebi Jews, Marital conversion, Marrano, Max Delvalle, Mendes, Messianic Judaism, Mestizo, Mexico City, Middle Ages, Mizrahi Jews, Morocco, Mulatto, Netanya, New Christian, New Mexico, New York City, Nicolás Maduro, Nissim Karelitz, North macroregion, Peru, Northeast Region, Brazil, Nuevo León, Old Christian, Oliveira (surname), Ottoman Empire, Palma de Mallorca, Paradigm, Passing (sociology), Patriarchate of the East Indies, Pérez, Pedro Cieza de León, Peretz, Perjury, Peru, Phillippe de Oliveira, Pope Alexander VI, Population decline, Population genetics, Portuguese Inquisition, Portuguese name, Print syndication, Proselytism, Pundit, Purim, Rabbi, Rabbinic Judaism, Racism, Río de la Plata Basin, Religious conversion, Ricardo Maduro, Rivera, Saint, Salazar (surname), Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Secularity, Sepharad, Sephardic Jews, Seridó, Settler, Shavei Israel, Sinagoga, Slavic names, South America, Southwestern United States, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Spanish Inquisition, Spanish naming customs, Status quo, Surname, Synagogue, Syncretism, Syria, Syrian Jews, Takkanah, The Jerusalem Post, The New York Times, Torres (surname), Treaty of Tordesillas, Tribe of Judah, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, World War I, Xueta, Yale University, YouTube, Zaruma, Zera Yisrael.

Sephardic Bnei Anusim, the Glossary

Table of Contents