THE SEPHARDIC JEWS IN PORTUGAL

Fecha de publicación: Feb 08, 2017 4:23:23 PM

Crypto Jews of Portugal The Jews that integrated into Portuguese Christian society were able to retain relative autonomy and their own organization by a delicate balance of compromise, concession and interdependence, until the 15th. century. According to legend, the first Jews came to the Iberian Peninsula at the time of Nabucodonosor, King of the Chaleans (6th century) or even before, at the time of Solomon who reigned in Israel from 974B.C. to 937B.C. While these hypotheses may lie in the legendary domain, it has been ascertained that the Jewish presence in Iberia preceded and acc... más »