PORTUGUESE WOMAN DISCOVERS HER ' SECRET' JEWISH ROOTS 

Eu sou portuguesa de belmonte e somos judeos novos cristianos. E sentimos sempre no coraçao que somos judeos na alma e espirito. Bravo ❤❤

My ancestry is Puerto Rican for many generations. Thank you for sharing your story! It inspires hope. I can relate clearly to several parts of it. The mezuzah sweeping custom, the covering of mirrors after a family member's death, the kissing of bread before throwing it away, the Diaz surname, Iberian ancestry ( I still have DNA distant cousins in Portugal and others in Brazil), the love for the people of Israel ( I also love the G-d of Israel). I pray that someday HaShem will grant my return as well. Todah rabah & shalom to your family!

Same here I grew up in Portugal and didn’t learn nothing about the inquisition and Jews in Portugal and recently discovered that I descend from Sephardic Jews

Jamaican dancehall artist Sean Paul is of portugese jewish ancestry on his father's side, his birth name is Sean Paul Francis Henriques, his sephardic jewish great grandfather came from portugal to jamaica in the 17th century

Some of the bnei anusim left for England and France which were not under Catholic rule during the Inquesition. Some of their descendants came to early North America and erected the first synagogues in the US, Sephardic temples. I hope we are remembered and welcomed also. I have an ancestor from Spain who was burned alive for keeping his Jewish faith, one who converted to Catholocism and betrayed his own family, and another who helped put up the first synagogue in the deep south, in Savannah, Georgia. I thank her for sharing her story. The more of us who share our experiences, the more we can find the relief that comes with the answers to what were our family secrets.

She is so beautiful

in the northeast of Portugal there are villages like Carçao, Argoselos, Vimioso .... where the people are almost all descendants of Jews, very surprising to see that they kept the customs after several centuries ✡️🕎

I just had an oh my God moment when she talked about kissing the bread before throwing it away! my parents made us do that. My parents are from Madeira emigrating to South Africa in the 60s we still live here, my parents always had a love for Jewish people that I could never understand why, until I met and had Jewish friends. There is a strong bias in our family in favour for the state of Israel and Jews in particular. My parents always taught us that God has blessed us through the line of Abraham and the Hebrews/Jews., blessed all nations that way.

She's so pretty

Brazil is the country with most Anusim descendants. Brazil was actually built by them.

Same. My mother side is majority of Portuguese born in Brazil. Nominal catholics who never attended catholic masses and had specific “weird” habits. Later on I found out that they are from a jewish lineage. It’s sad that many people share a similar story but because they are indiferente to their family history they will never find out the truth.

My maiden name was VAZ which is Portuguese. This is so relatable to me. Thank you for this 🙏✡️🇮🇱

I had the same experience in feeling my own history in the language and such happiness with the language and culture, feeling so at home.

May Hashem bless her and her family and all the Jews of the world!

Me too my family from Portugal to Brazil

How did the name not bring suspicion? Hannah Eyal is not a Portuguese name by any means, and Eyal definitely sounds middle eastern/turkish, so it would indicate some ancestry from that part of the world.

Probably more than one quarter of the Portuguese people have some Jewish ancestry.

I also felt coming home when I landed in Israel…….

❤ Shalom

I am a German Jew who is 71 years old .

Here is the problem, many many people have ancestors who were Jewish, hundreds and hundreds of years ago no question we made up 20% of the Roman Empire but that does not mean they are Jewish secrect or otherwise.. the majority of the famed (real) crypto Jewish communitys in Braganza and Belmonte did not and have not returned to Judaism

The Jews got into Iberia together with the invasion by the Otaman Empire. A bunch of opportunists...

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