Remembering our heritage

These days near Yom Kippur remember once again to Juan Hernandez Crespo accused by the Inquisition in the Canary Islands to keep the fast.

Remember also to Isabel Lopes killed by the Inquisition of Seville in 1502, but whose children survived in the Canaries.

There were many Jews who survived in the Canary Islands, which have become prominent figures in society and other Canarian some as farmers or ranchers. What is very remarkable and easily demonstrable is the ultra high intermarriage of these families until the early twentieth century. I can not ensure that all of these families were aware of their origin in the twentieth century but in many of these families are practices and customs of Sephardic Jewish world. Thanks to all of them to survive.

 Part of Crespo's family tree in Canary Islands