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Encyclopedia Britannica



MARANO (accursed or banned)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 668 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MARANO (accursed or banned) , a
term
  applied to Jewish Christians in Spain. Converted to Roman Catholicism under compulsion, these " New Christians " often continued to observe Jewish
rites
  in their homes, as the
Inquisition
  records attest. It was in fact largely due to the Maranos that the Spanish
Inquisition
  was founded. The Maranos made rapid strides in prosperity, and " accumulated honours, wealth and popular hatred " (Lea, History of the Spanish Inquisition, i. 125). This was one of the causes that led to the expulsion of the
Jews
  from Spain in 1492. Maranos emigrated to various countries, but many remained in the Peninsula. Subsequently distinguished individuals left
home
  for more tolerant lands. The Jewish community in London was refounded by Maranos in the first half of the 17th
century
 . Hamburg commerce, too, owed much to the enterprise of Portuguese Maranos. In
Amsterdam
  many Maranos found asylum; Spinoza was descended from such a family. There are still remnants of
Marano
  families in Portugal.
See Lea, loc. cit. and elsewhere; see index s.v. " New Christian "; Graetz, History of the
Jews
 , Eng. trans, see index s.v. " Marranos "; M. Kayserling, in Jewish Encyclopedia, viii. 318 seq. ; and for the present day Jewish Quarterly
Review
 , xv. 251 seq. (I. A.)


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