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converso

In Spanish history, a Jew who had converted to Christianity. Despite their conversion, and the fact that many of them rose to positions of power in the 14th and 15th century, conversos and their descendants suffered at the hands of the Inquisition. Insincere converts, who continued to practise Judaism in secret, were branded marranos (pigs), and particularly ran the risk of prosecusion.

Curiously, some of the most zealous persecutors of the Jews were themselves of converso stock - the antipope Benedict XIII (Pedro de Luna; died 1423) and Torquemada are two well-known examples.
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Found in the archives of the Toledo Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition, the dossiers in question pertain to the seventeenth century, a period for which documentation on the converso immigrants in France is very scarce.
Becoming Jewish in early modern France: documents on Jewish ... by Graizbord, David / Journal of Social History
This historical romance centers on Hannah Green, a 14-year-old converso (a Jew who has ostensibly adopted Roman Catholicism) who has fled Spain and the Inquisition with her father, a bookseller and printer, to seek refuge in England.
The Queen's Fool by Dole, Pat / Kliatt
Thousands of conversos were burned at the stake by church inquisitors who treated "Jewish blood taint" as a contaminant irrespective of religious subscription, laying the grounds for the racialist anti-Semitism of Nazism.
Jesus, Mel Gibson, & the demon Jew by Parenti, Michael / The Humanist
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