B’nei anusim (in Portuguese, “children forced”) designating the descendants of Jews forcibly converted (anusim) or Marrano is a generic Hebrew expression and historiographical concept that refers to Jews converted to Christianity of the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula that “judaizavam”, that is, who continued to secretly observe their ancient customs and their former religion. […]
The Jewish Museum of Belmonte, is a museum that depicts the long history of the Jewish community in the region that resisted long years and centuries of religious persecution. It is the first museum of its kind in Portugal, located in the last redoubt of criptojudaica community then installed around the fifteenth century. The museum […]
This is a unique monument lytic currently in ruins, over the centuries has attracted the attention of onlookers and scholars, raising many different legends and theories around him. One of the traditions, for example, states that the building would have been a prison with a hundred cells (hence the name), which would have been captive […]
The community of Belmonte houses an important feature of the Sephardic Jewish history, related to the Jewish resistance to religious intolerance in the Iberian Peninsula. In the sixteenth century, when the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and the reconquest of the Spanish and Portuguese land by Catholic kings and Manuel, a law […]
