A survey of the condition of the Marranos in Portugal, the descendants of those Jews who, under the pressure of the Inquisition, accepted the Christian faith but continued to live in separate communities, was made by Mr. Lucien Wolf, secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Jewish Deputies and the Anglo Jewish Association, Mr. Wolf made this survey at the request of the Board of Jewish Deputies.
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