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The 'Belmonte Jews' are a community that survived in secrecy for hundreds of years by maintaining a tradition of endogamy and by hiding all the external signs of their faith. The Jewish community in Belmonte, Portugal, goes back to the 12th century and they were only discovered in the 20th century by an Ashkenazi captain of the Portuguese army. Their rich Sephardic tradition of Crypto-Judaism is unique.
Only recently did they contact other Jews and they now claim to profess Orthodox Judaism, although they still retain their centuries-old traditions.

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★ Sephardi

★ [http://jewishwebindex.com/spain.htm jews of Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar and Mallorca