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On Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, Dr. Emily Colbert Cairns, associate professor at Salve Regina University, delivered a lecture titled “‘La Santa Esther’: Esther Among the Crypto-Jews of the Americas.” The event was part of the Crisis and Hope: YU Voices lecture series and covered material found in Dr. Cairns’ chapter in Esther in …

Hace mas de una década me embarqué en el ambicioso viaje para documentar mi propio linaje Cripto-Judío que había estado encerrado dentro de mi familia católica durante más de 520 años. Estaba trabajando a ciegas, ya que no conocía a nadie que hubiera sido capaz de lograr esto y no había …

Tim Herrera rides the New Mexican range. (Screen grab from A Long Journey, The Hidden Jews of the Southwest by filmmaker Isaac Artenstein.) By Mimi Pollack L’Chaim San Diego Magazine SAN DIEGO — My late fiancé, an 8th generation New Mexican, used to tell me about the secret or crypto Jews of New …

‘THE INQUISITION IS STILL A DIRTY AND PAINFUL SECRET HERE’ The Spanish island’s chueta, whose ancestors were forced to convert during the Inquisition, were spurned by locals despite practicing Catholicism. Now they’re returning to Judaism. Toni Pinya enters the synagogue of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, February 11, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz) …

A record number of Americans whose Jewish ancestors fled the Inquisition are applying for citizenship as an ‘insurance policy’ against a perceived rise in US anti-Semitism Blanca Carrasco on a visit to a Sephardi synagogue in Fez, Morocco. (Courtesy) Sephardi heritage is having a moment. It’s not just progressive firebrand …

By Justin Samuels Spain and Portugal had large Jewish populations until various pogroms and forced conversions, culminating in the 1492 and 1497 edicts forced all Jews to either leave the Iberian peninsula, become Catholic, or be executed.  Those horrible edicts had a major impact on world Judaism, as the Iberian peninsula was …