[Verginius Rufus]

Jews who had converted to Christianity were not required to leave Spain, but sometimes they were suspected of having only pretended to convert and so were often targets of the Inquisition.

The Spanish-speaking Jews kept speaking Spanish where they moved to--many of them to the Ottoman Empire.

I once heard someone tell about a Turkish consul stationed in Chicago whose wife did not speak English. She had no trouble there because she was of Sephardic Jewish background and could go to the Hispanic neighborhoods in Chicago and get along fine in the stores using her Spanish.

[RobbyS]

St. Teresa of Avila came from a Jewish Christian family.