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The Society for CryptoJudaic Studies Who Are The CryptoJews. The secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith is the way that Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity known as conversos and some later as cryptoJews managed to stay alive through centuries of persecution. The forced conversion and subsequent expulsion of Iberian Jews in the 15th century ended 1000 years of Jewish life and culture in the Iberian peninsula. Practically overnight those who escaped fled to the far corners of the world taking their traditions with them.