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To: vladimir998
When the Spanish Inquisition expanded to the New World

https://www.timesofisrael.com/when-the-spanish-inquisition-expanded-to-the-new-world/

Among the exhibition's jewels is one of just two documented Spanish copies of the Alhambra Decree, the 1492 edict signed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who ordered the Sephardim to convert or leave within 90 days.

“It's what started the whole movement, the diaspora,” said Josef Diaz, chief curator of the exhibit. “To think you had only three months to convert and change your entire belief system or flee. It's very powerful. It's a scary, powerful document. That's the one that just moves me the most.”

“After the Alhambra Decree is issued, it was illegal to be Jewish anywhere in the Spanish world,” Levine said. “[It was] on pain of death. If you were Jewish, you were quite clandestine anywhere in the Spanish Empire.”

Anyone suspected of practicing Judaism risked the wrath of a new, terrifying organization: the Spanish Inquisition.

Established in Spain in 1478, the Inquisition began active investigations in 1480. The next 40 years would see a wave of persecution of crypto-Jews, or conversos who secretly practiced Judaism, in Spain and to some extent in the Americas, Martinez-Davila said.

74 posted on 09/18/2022 6:08:19 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

You’re still not posting any evidence that Jews were to be forcibly converted and if not that then killed.

Why not?


76 posted on 09/18/2022 6:13:43 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Interesting your article cites the Alhambra Decree, Did you read it?

An ultimatum "convert or die" does not exist in the actual document. Its actually "deport or die."

Also it is notable that they were to be unmolested in deportation and disposition.

And so that the said Jews and Jewesses during the stated period of time until the end of the said month of July may be better able to dispose of themselves, and their possession, and their estates, for the present we take and receive them under our Security, protection, and royal safeguard, and we secure to them and to their possessions that for the duration of the said time until the said last day of the said month of July they may travel and be safe, they may enter, sell, trade, and alienate all their movable and rooted possessions and dispose of them freely and at their will, and that during the said time, no one shall harm them, nor injure them, no wrong shall be done to them against justice, in their persons or in their possessions, under the penalty which falls on and is incurred by those who violate the royal safeguard. And we likewise give license and faculty to those said Jews and Jewesses that they be able to export their goods and estates out of these our said kingdoms and lordships by sea or land as long as they do not export gold or silver or coined money or other things prohibited by the laws of our kingdoms, excepting merchandise and things that are not prohibited.

There was not a forced conversion program.

85 posted on 09/18/2022 6:37:30 PM PDT by Bayard
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