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The Marranos were the Jews that converted to Christianity but continued to practice Judaism in the cellar.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2017
The secrecy is senseless, in a way. since most of their neighbors know that the Marranos are Jews.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Marranos shun all Saturday work, a telltale sign of their identity, but paradoxically, most of the men have not been circumcised because that could disclose their secret.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Marranos, they kept their faith in secret even after the official freedom of religion was proclaimed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Holland was the centre of Jewish hope in the seventeenth century, and among its tolerant and cultivated people the Marranos, exiled from Spain and Portugal, founded a new Jerusalem.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Israel Abrahams
