Captive Jews

What are "Captive Jews?" Are you one of them? Do they include Black Irish, Melungeons, Mexicans, Scottish Clansmen, and others?


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Contents:
1. What Are "Captive Jews"?
2. Question: What are Marranos, Conversos, Anusim?

1. Question: What Are "Captive Jews"?
Answer: "Captive Jews" are descendants of Jews who changed their religion due to choice or external pressure. Traditionally the fate of "Captive Jews" is wound up with the Return of the Lost Ten Tribes.

See
Question no. 2 below, "What are Marranos, Conversos, Anusim?"
"Spain and the Jews"
"Biblical Proof no. 19 "North Country" "Captive Jews"
"Brit-Am Now"-105
#6. Captive Jews amongst Hispanics
"Brit-Am Now"-130
#7. Michael Freund: Marranos No More
"Brit-Am Now"-131
#1. Spanish Lost Jews in South West USA
"Brit-Am Now"-139
#2. Spanish Jewish descendants in USA
"Brit-Am Now"-153
2. Captured Jews in Spain

See also
"Brit-Am Now"- 332
#1. Question on Sephardim and Captive Jews
See also
Brit-Am Now"-371
#7. Jewish Ancestry and Identification
Brit-Am Now"-153
#2. Michael Freund: Captured Jews in Spain
"Brit-Am Now"-329
#5. "Sepharad" and Judah
Brit-Am Now"-334
#2. Terminology for Jews Forced to Convert
"Brit-Am Now"-336
#3. Jewish Melungeons and Scottish Clansmen??
"Brit-Am Now"-399
#2. Rabbinical Sources from Somewhere Else
"Brit-Am Now"-498
#4. French Canadians of Sephardic Jewish Descent?
"Brit-Am Now"-500
#5. Spanish Marrano Black Irish



2. Question: What are Marranos, Conversos, Anusim?
Answer:
These are different names for Captive Jews or their descendants whose ancestors were forced to convert to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal.

See:
Question no.1 above, "What are Captive Jews?"
"Brit-Am Now"-135
#4. M. Carreon: Spanish Jews
"Brit-Am Now"-514
#3. More on Latinos of Jewish Origin
"Brit-Am Now"-549
#3. Sephardic Jewish Blood in Western Peoples

Sources
"Brit-Am Now"-419
#4. Question on Forced Converts of Jewish Descent
Brit-Am Now"-910
#1. Remark on Statistics and Jewish Blood amongst Persecutors
Brit-Am Now"-968
#2. Extracts from Posting about Forced Portuguese Convert Ancestry


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