15th–17th centuries
Expulsion of Jews from Andalusia ordered by the Inquisition, prelude to the 1492 decree
1483·Andalousie
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Even before the general decree that would drive the Jews from all the kingdoms of Spain, the Inquisition secured their expulsion from the dioceses of Seville, Córdoba, and Cádiz. The argument was simple and would be repeated nine years later on a national scale: the presence of Jewish communities, it was claimed, prevented *conversos* from becoming true Christians.
Andalusia thus served as the laboratory for the Decree of Granada. The expelled families first made their way to Castile and Extremadura, where they would be overtaken by the common fate. The episode demonstrates that the general expulsion was not an improvised decision but the culmination of a policy tested region by region.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Expulsion
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Espagne
Henry Charles Lea, *A History of the Inquisition of Spain* ; Luis Suárez Fernández, *Documentos acerca de la expulsión de los judíos* ; Yitzhak Baer, *A History of the Jews in Christian Spain*.