Concept
Contact between Jews and converts, as the decree states it
The reason Ferdinand and Isabella gave in the Alhambra Decree: that contact led converts back to their old faith.
According to Ferdinand II of Aragon
According to Isabella I of Castile
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caused
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Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, 1492
According to Ferdinand II of AragonAccording to Isabella I of Castile
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The monarchs’ own charge. The decree rests it on “many statements and confessions” gathered by the tribunal the crown itself had set up.
Proof 1 source
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Edict of the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, 1492 (translation by Edward Peters), Center for Online Judaic Studies, 31 Mar 1492.
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we have been informed that in these our kingdoms there were some wicked Christians who Judaized and apostatized from our holy Catholic faith, the great cause of which was interaction between the Jews and these Christians
This proved by many statements and confessions, both from these same Jews and from those who have been perverted and enticed by them
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