The Marranos of Spain: From the Late 14th to the Early 16th Century, According to Contemporary Hebrew Sources
- ISBN-10
- 0801485681
- ISBN-13
- 9780801485688
- Category
- Crypto-Jews
- Pages
- 322
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Benzion Netanyahu
Description
Analyzes the degree of assimilation of the Spanish Conversos based on Jewish perceptions as reflected in responsa and in polemical and exegetical Jewish literature of the time (1391-1481). Rejects the present-day view that many Conversos were Judaizers, arguing that, on the contrary, most of them were at different stages of assimilation and Christianization and were even tinged with anti-Judaism. Stresses that in fact the majority of the Spanish Jewish community converted (forcibly or not), and the remaining Jews, a minority, felt uncertainty as to the Jewishness of the Conversos, considering as a crypto-Jew (or "anuss") only a Converso who respected Jewish precepts in private and who tried to leave Spain in order to return to Judaism. The fact that most Conversos did neither shows that most of them abandoned Judaism, and that the Inquisition's persecution campaign was held not on religious but on racial and political grounds, meant to destroy a successfully competing social group.
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