# Conversos (Marranos) in 10 Minutes

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Podcast: [Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time](https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216)
Published: 2026-07-20T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Step into the shadowed world of the Conversos —the "converted ones"—the thousands of Jews in Spain and Portugal who were forced to adopt Catholicism during the mass riots of 1391 and the final expulsion in 1492 . In this episode, we unpack the dual lives of this fractured community, exploring the complex spectrum of identity that emerged: from those who fully embraced their new faith to the "Crypto-Jews" who risked their lives to maintain Jewish traditions in secret. We'll dive into the terrifying arrival of the Inquisition , established in 1478 specifically to root out these "secret heretics," and examine how the "Blood Purity" ( Limpieza de Sangre ) laws fundamentally changed the definition of Jewishness from a religious choice to a permanent, racialized category. Join us as we trace the global legacy of the Conversos, who fled to the edges of the Spanish Empire—from the mountains of New Mexico to the shipping docks of Amsterdam—carrying with them a hidden heritage that would eventually spark a massive "Sephardic Reawakening" in the modern world.

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