Word: marranos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish community are prominent in business and the professions. In the northern villages, however, cruel memories persist. The priests are nearly as powerful-and many of them as backward and anti-Semitic-as in the Middle Ages. The current priest in Belmonte is a "good man," says a prosperous Marrano housewife, but the previous one "said in church that the Jews should be hanged." The Marranos claim that when they did not attend Mass they were denounced to the secret police as suspected Communists. "My father was stoned in the streets," recalls another Marrano. The furtive believers shun photographers...
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