• Anusim (Hebrew: אֲנוּסִים, pronounced [anuˈsim]; singular male, anús, Hebrew: אָנוּס pronounced [aˈnus]; singular female, anusáh, אֲנוּסָה‎ pronounced...
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  • Sephardic Bnei Anusim (Hebrew: בני אנוסים ספרדיים, Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈbne anuˈsim sfaraˈdijim], lit. "Children [of the] coerced [converted] Spanish...
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    Sephardic Bnei Anusim consists of the contemporary and largely nominal Christian descendants of assimilated 15th century Sephardic anusim. These descendants...
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  • or Zera Yisrael, if they fail to prove an unbroken maternal chain. Bnei Anusim (lit. 'children [of the] forced ones') is a Hebrew term referring to the...
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  • The neofiti (English: Neophytes) were a group of Italian anusim, also known as crypto-Jews, living in Southern Italy. The neofiti were descendants of Jews...
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    outwardly professed Catholicism, also known as Conversos, Marranos, or the Anusim. The phenomenon is especially associated with medieval Spain, following...
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    some Bnei Anusim, that is, the descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to other faiths. The Hebrew term for forced converts is "Anusim" (lit. "forced...
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  • Nnamdi Anusim (born 11 July 1972) is a Nigerian sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde...
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    known as "Anusim" ('forced-ones'), continued practicing Judaism in secret while living outwardly as ordinary Christians. The best known Anusim communities...
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    practice Judaism (Bnei Anusim) at the house of Rabbi Boaz Pash. A meeting between a Chief Rabbi and Portuguese Marranos (Bnei Anusim) had not happened in...
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  • Bnei Anusim. Sephardic Bnei Anusim are the contemporary and largely nominally Christian descendants of assimilated 15th century Sephardic Anusim, and...
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    a Meshumad, and the Anusim is that the act of abandonment of Judaism is voluntary for a Min and a Meshumad, while for the Anusim it is not. One source...
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    Israel Berber Related groups Bnei Anusim Lemba Crimean Karaites Krymchaks Kaifeng Jews Igbo Jews Samaritans Crypto-Jews Anusim Dönmeh Marranos Neofiti Xueta...
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  • Modern Portuguese varieties, traditionally spoken by the Sephardic Bnei Anusim of Iberia and Ibero-America, including some recent returnees to Judaism...
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    ca. 19% of Christians worldwide. Crypto-Jews or Marranos, conversos, and Anusim were an important part of colonial life in Latin America. Both Buenos Aires...
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    dispute with Yitzhak Baer. Baer, following earlier views, considered the Anusim (forced converts to Christianity) a case of "Kiddush Hashem" (sanctification...
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  • retired Rabbi Samuel Lerer who spent much of his 51-year career working with anusim in Mexico. The SCJS has taken a lead in interest in DNA studies, especially...
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    Daime, Candomblé, and Umbanda. Crypto-Jews or Marranos, conversos, and Anusim were an important part of colonial life in Latin America. Buenos Aires and...
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    centuries. Until the 20th century, the majority were Sephardic with many Anusim (Crypto-Jews) among them. Ashkenazi Jews arrived mostly as refugees after...
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  • known as conversos in Spanish or anusim in Hebrew) in the sixteenth century, and the lives of the Sephardic Bnei Anusim (their assimilated descendants)...
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    Mexico. The community is made up of people who are descended from B'nei Anusim, also known as Conversos, Jews who were either forcibly converted to Christianity...
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    from 1555 to the Meiji Restoration. Inquisition Laramans Mozarabs Marrano/Anusim/Converso – comparable group of hidden Jews in Spain and Portugal Nagasaki...
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  • Israel Berber Related groups Bnei Anusim Lemba Crimean Karaites Krymchaks Kaifeng Jews Igbo Jews Samaritans Crypto-Jews Anusim Dönmeh Marranos Neofiti Xueta...
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  • Tunisian Jews, Libyan Jews, Amazonian Jews, Iberian Jews, Sephardic Bnei Anusim, Xuetes, and Toshavim), Mizrahim (including Bukharim, Juhurim, Kurdim, Syrian...
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    Israel Berber Related groups Bnei Anusim Lemba Crimean Karaites Krymchaks Kaifeng Jews Igbo Jews Samaritans Crypto-Jews Anusim Dönmeh Marranos Neofiti Xueta...
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  • converts to Judaism or descendants of anusim returning to Judaism is speculative. Most claim they descend from anusim.[citation needed] The state of Israel...
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    persisted among the conversos. Rabbinic authorities, categorizing conversos as anusim or "forced ones", affirmed their continued Jewish identity despite the conversion...
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    Islamic conquests. The studies also show that Sephardic Bnei Anusim (descendants of the "anusim" who were forced to convert to Catholicism), which comprise...
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  • return to Judaism, became the modern-day Christian-professing Sephardic Bnei Anusim of Latin America (it is only in the modern era that a nascent community...
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  • migrating to other parts of the Italian peninsula. These groups also include anusim, crypto-Jewish families who left Iberia in subsequent centuries and reverted...
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