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thaumasiotes on Dec 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisiti...

> I assume crypto-jewish has something to do with mythical, as in cryptozoology.

The definition was already mentioned elsewhere in the comments -- crypto-Jews are (in the Inquisition context) Jews claiming to be Christians.

eecc on Dec 15, 2019 [–]

Aka as “marrano” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrano) I’ve been told a telltale sign you might have such ancestry is having a surname named from a city.

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