Questions tagged [marranos-conversos]
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Were flour tortillas invented by the Jews of New Spain? [closed]
I was reading the Wikipedia entry for tortilla. It says,
The wheat flour tortilla was an innovation by exiled Spanish Jews who
did not consider corn meal to be kosher, using wheat brought from
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Did the conversos who continued to live as crypto-Jews in Spain have any Halakhic justification?
Avoda Zara is 'ייהרג ואל יעבור', one of the few transgressions a Jew should give up their life for and be willing to die 'על קידוש השם'. In the medieval period, around the time of the Spanish ...
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Al pi halacha, are descendents from Marranos considered Jewish? [duplicate]
What level of proof would be needed for a person whose ancestors lived in Mexico and who claims to be a descendant of the Marranos to be considered Jewish for the sake of marriage? Or are all such ...