sepahrdim – eSefarad

Recognition of Sephardim Crypto-Jews Changes World Judaism

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 …