Features of the Jewish community " B'nei Anusim community" in the Canary Islands.

The processed Jewish community seems to have concentrated on two islands, Tenerife and La Palma.
Lucien Wolf believes that the Yishuv had maintained older Jewish characteristics which are attributed to the fifteenth century Spanish Jews , for example, 1 ) including many speak Hebrew as usual , is recorded only if one can write , sign , in Hebrew. 2 ) were inbred , wives and husbands arrived from Madeira and Lisbon. 3) a 1524 complaint states that " are as Jewish as before his conversion," Nuñez family try to make aliyah , with the help of Andrea Alfonso, shipping, dealing with Caceres , Simon Gomez or Gómez Hernández , with Diaz and Rodriguez Gutierres, all rich merchants who deal with Castile, France, Flanders and London, who between them speak Hebrew , keep the fasts , observe the holidays, have rabbis , observe the Sabbath , gather to pray and study . They Hebrew ritual books , and copies of the Torah , light the menorah on Friday evening , wear clean clothes and the best clothes for Shabbat . Observe the laws of kashrut, sacrifice beasts as they should do, cows and sheep, and cut the throats of poultry , remove the fat at the rump, and tendons removed, cooked baked unleavened bread, salt and wash the meat.

Santa Cruz de La Palma, La Palma.

They come in every class and economic status, but they are usually owners have farmland, vineyards and slaves are merchants, with London, France, Flanders, Castile and Portugal. Two provincial council reached , others worked in the customs house and others took refuge in the church.
They played various professions , farmers, doctors, surgeons, shopkeepers, goldsmiths, butchers, tailors, cobblers, haberdashers, dyers, clippers and even a public executioner .

The terror that marked the work of the inquisitors Martín Ximénez and Luis Padilla caused this community disappeared as such, most were assimilated by the native population, and capital after pressure found refuge in rural areas of the archipelago where some of these families have lived alone having contact with other converts.

San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife

Some of these families retained much of their customs to the nineteenth or even the twentieth century and even today some of these families know that they are different and have retained many customs that keep secret .