User:Ashishvk

I intend to create a new article on the role of conversos in reshaping Jewish culture and faith during the Inquisition. I plan to focus on the Spanish Jews and how the Conversos and Conversas played a vital role in keeping their ancestral Jewish heritage and culture alive while outwardly adhering to Christian principles. The Conversas even under extreme pressure from the Church and State played an essential role in passing on their Jewish values to their children by observing religious holidays. Conversos made vital donations to the Jewish community and the Synagogue in order to foster the growth and development of the Jewish culture; and most importantly to reassure the Jewish people (and the conversos) to continue to maintain their faith in Judaism. I am thinking of adding a section each on the role of conversos and conversas, elaborating on their efforts to keep the Spanish Jewish culture alive.

'''—Great idea, but the article title seems a bit incomplete "role of conversos/conversas" in what specifically? I think you would be better off adding your material to an existing wikipedia article Converso. -Prof. Bitzan Amos26 (talk) 18:37, 28 October 2016 (UTC)'''

Sources:

A Question of Identity: Iberian Conversos in historical perspective by Renee Levine Melammed.

Souls in Dispute Converso Identities in Iberian and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 by David L Graizbord.

The Jews - A History by John Efron, Steven Weitzman and Matthias Lehmann.

Heratics or daughters of Israel? : the Crypto-Jewish women of Castile by Renee Levine Melammed.