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Persecution of Jews and Muslims by Manuel I of Portugal

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89: 31: 115:, as an unstated condition to win her hand. The King demonstrated his wish to completely and forever eradicate Judaism from Portugal by issuing two decrees. The initial edict of expulsion of 1496 was turned into an edict of forced conversion in 1497, whereby Portuguese Jews were prevented from leaving the country and were forcibly baptized and converted to Christianity. Those Jews who refused to pay taxes in protest were deported from Portugal and abandoned to their fate in the islands of 135: 292:, the Portuguese government originally planned to forcibly convert or execute Muslims as they had done to Jews, but fear of retaliation from Muslim kingdoms in North Africa led the king to settle on deportations instead. Manuel I's motivation behind the order is unclear, but some contemporary historians say it was part of a greater goal of Queen 263:
in Castelo Branco, plus some scattered families) by their practice of intermarriage and their very limited cultural contacts with the outside world. Only recently, in the late 20th century, have they re-established contact with the international Jewish community and openly practice their religion in
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who continued to secretly practice their religion; they eventually left the country in the centuries to come, and openly embraced their Jewish faith again in foreign lands. Such was the case, for example, of the ancestors of Baruch Spinoza in the Netherlands. Some other Portuguese Jews, very few in
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expelled from Portugal. The law is a reaction to historical events that led to their expulsion from Portugal, but also due to increased concerns over Jewish communities throughout Europe. In order to obtain Portuguese nationality, the person must attest being a direct descendant of a Sephardi of
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According to contemporary historian François Soyer, the expulsion of Muslims from Portugal has been overshadowed by the forced conversion of Jews in the country. While tolerance of Muslim minorities in Portugal was higher than in any other part of Europe, Muslims were still perceived as "alien."
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were home to important Jewish communities. The Jewish community, along with the Moors, had control in Spain as well, until around 1478 when Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand had started buying the land that anyone who was not Catholic had controlled.
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In the 19th century, some affluent families of Sephardi Jewish Portuguese origin such as the Ruah and Bensaude, resettled in Portugal from Morocco. The first synagogue to be built in Portugal since the 15th century was the
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Portuguese origin or family connections in a collateral line from a former Portuguese Sephardi community. Use of expressions in Portuguese in Jewish rites or
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In December 1496, Manuel I ordered all Muslim subjects to leave without any apparent provocation. According to 16th-century Portuguese historians
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António José Saraiva: The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians 1536-1765, BRILL, 2001,
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Until the 15th century, some Jews occupied prominent places in Portuguese political and economic life. For example,
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The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal: King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496–7)
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signed the decree of expulsion of Jews and Muslims to take effect by the end of October of the next year.
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during the negotiations of the contract of marriage between himself and their eldest daughter
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to leave after the Lisbon massacre of 1506, many went to the Ottoman Empire, notably
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during the 1460s; however, no similar acts of violence occurred in Portugal.
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Altabé, David Fintz; Altabe, David Fintz (September 1992).
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in order to grant Portuguese nationality to descendants of
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or leave the country, in order to satisfy a request by the
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Expulsion of the Jews in 1497, in a 1917 watercolour by
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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, n.º 8, 2008, pp. 33-62
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Index

Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal

King Manuel I of Portugal
Isaac Abrabanel
Afonso V of Portugal
Portuguese culture
Lisbon
Évora
History of the Jews in Portugal

Alfredo Roque Gameiro
Manuel I of Portugal
Catholicism
Catholic Monarchs of Spain
Isabella, Princess of Asturias
São Tomé and Príncipe
the massacre of 2,000 people in Lisbon in 1506
Portuguese Inquisition

Salonica
Constantinople
Morocco
Amsterdam
France
Brazil
Curaçao
Antilles
Surinam
New Amsterdam
Ladino

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