Expulsion of Jews from Spain

The decision of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile to banish the Jews from Spain in 1492 with the Alhambra Decree, or the Edict of Expulsion. 










While Jews who converted to Christianity were not banished, Tomás de Torquemada and the Spanish government still tortured many of them. They did not believe that the converted Jews were really Christian and killed many of them in the Spanish Inquisition, a systematic campaign of persecution of Jews lasting from 1478 to 1834.

Aftermath
As many as 300,000 Jews under Spanish rule were killed over false charges of "crypto-Judaism" in the 356 years of the Inquisition, a charge slapped on Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism under Catholic Spanish rule.
Related pages
 Inquisition
 Antiziganism
 Antisemitism
 Sephardi Jews
 History of Jews
 Antisemitism in Europe

References

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