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    Xueta (redirect from Chuetas)
    pronunciation: [ʃuˈətə]; singular Xueta, also known as Xuetons and spelled as Chuetas) are a social group on the Spanish island of Majorca, in the Mediterranean...
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    which 30% stated that they would never marry a Chueta and 5% declared that they do not even want to have Chueta friends. Specific groups of conversos left...
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    synagogue of Palma de Mallorca. It is estimated that there are roughly 20,000 Chuetas living on the island of Majorca today, and they practiced strict endogamy...
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    religiosas en España". La Vanguardia. 2 April 2015. "El cristianismo judío de un chueta pobre". Monografias.com (in Spanish). 9 February 2003. Retrieved 10 November...
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  • yehudi יֽהוּדִי came to denote 'Jew', resp. 'Jewish'. cp. 'Judaic', 'Jew', 'Chueta' and 'Yiddish'. According to rabbi Marcus Jastrow's dictionary, yehudi is...
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    Christianity or exile for Jews, numerous conversos, also called Xueta (or Chueta) in the Balearic Islands ruled by Spain, publicly professed Roman Catholicism...
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    the entire community of Sephardi descendants in Palma de Mallorca, the Chuetas, as Jewish. They number approximately 18,000 people or just over 2% of...
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    important financiers. In 1691, during a number of autos de fé in Majorca, 37 chuetas, or conversos of Majorca, were burned. During the eighteenth century, the...
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  • Spanish-Portuguese Nation of the Caribbeans: La Nacion". Jewish Virtual Library. "Chuetas of Majorca recognized as Jewish"; The Jerusalem Post 07/12/2011 Moshe,...
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  • occurs at a frequency of 2.53% amongst Majorcans and 0.96% amongst Sephardi Chuetas. U5b3b: this subclade is likely similarly western Mediterranean/Ibero-Italic...
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