Tags: Ethnic Group.
Judaism in Mexico began in 1519 with the arrival of “Marranos” or “Crypto-Jews” those forcibly converted to Catholicism due to the Spanish Inquisition. Over the colonial period a number came to Mexico despite Mexican Inquisition persecutions in the late 16th and mid 17th centuries. However most Conversos eventually assimilated into Mexican society with no immigration of practicing Jews allowed into the country until the 19th century.
