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Jews in Portugal were forced to convert to Christianity, but were largely allowed to practice their religion in private. Portugal did not immediately establish an Inquisition until 1536. The Inquisition held its first Auto da fé in Portugal in 1540.
29 sty 2015 · The Portuguese parliament is finally implementing a law it endorsed back in 2013 to give dual citizenship to anyone who can prove descendence from the Sephardic Jewish victims of the...
20 gru 2023 · Rafael Galhano de Almeida, an immigration lawyer in Lisbon, said that some Portuguese people have correlated the nationality law with antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the...
Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the few centuries following the forced expulsion of unconverted Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497.
10 mar 2021 · It discusses the singularity of this memory boom in a country with a small Jewish population and examines how state institutions interact with the Jewish communities in Portugal which are composed, to a large extent, of Ashkenazi Jews.
22 kwi 2021 · The distinction between “Portuguese Jews” and “Jews in Portugal” depends on how Jews are imagined and identified in a given situation. From the Portuguese perspective, “Jews in Portugal” addresses as “Jews” those who have been recognized by religious authorities.
These converted Jews became known as “New Christians”. Despite their conversion, New Christians faced limitations on their legal, financial and civil rights, as well as threats to their safety.
