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The Spanish Inquisition
Jews have always been oppressed and exiled throughout history, dating back to 135 B.C. The expulsion of Jews in Spain during 1492 was a direct result of The Inquisition in the early present period in 1478. It was an everlasting papal judicial institution of the Roman Catholic Church that was to eliminate deviations, initially affecting people that had relations with alchemy, sorcery, and witchcraft, also it was dealing with unorthodox groups like the Cathars and later with reverted converts or “heretics” who refused to renounce. Eventually This affected not only Jewish community in Spain but protestants and Muslim’s too. In result to this, On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree, which ordered …show more content…
Jews were given four to six months to depart. The decree assembled with instant complaints in some cities by persons who believed that the kingdoms shouldn’t have expelled such "hardworking" individuals. Certainly, some of Ferdinand and Isabella's most significant consultants and Jewish leader, such as Don Isaac Abravanel, relocated out of Spain. Don even said on an annulment when he offered compensation by saying, “On behalf of my people, the people of Israel, I declare them blameless and innocent of all crimes declared in this edict of abomination. The crime, the transgression, is for you, not us, to bear.” Other people were concerned that the decree might incite anti-Jewish violence, which was in contradiction of the rulings of the church. Numerous Spaniards, though, celebrated the decree of exclusion and jumped at the chance to take benefit of it. Jews were enforced to sell their property and couldn’t even take jewelries or cash with them; as a result, corrupt old Christians purchased the property of despairing Jews for a fraction of its true …show more content…
Under the decree, Jews were guaranteed royal "protection and security" for the effective four-month time frame before the deadline. The penalty for any Jew who did not switch religions or leave by the deadline suffered from instant execution. The penalty for a non-Jew who protected or concealed Jews were the seizure of all possessions and inherited freedoms, and sometimes even death. The Spanish Jews who selected to depart Spain instead of changing religions, scattered through the area of North Africa known as the Maghreb. In that area, they often interacted with the already present Mizrahi Arabic or Berber language communities, becoming the descendants of the Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian and Libyan Jewish populations. Numerous Spanish Jews also escaped to the Ottoman Empire, where they were given sanctuary. Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learned about the removal of Jews from Spain, and shipped the Ottoman Navy to take the Jews securely to Ottoman lands, mostly to the cities of Thessaloniki and İzmir. Several of these Jews also established home in other parts of the Balkan that were ruled by the Ottomans such as the areas that are now Bulgaria, Serbia and

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