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Anusim


Anusim (Hebrew: אֲנוּסִים‎, pronounced [anuˈsim]; singular male, Anús, Hebrew: אָנוּסpronounced [aˈnus]; singular female, Anusáh, אָנוּסָהpronounced [anuˈsa], meaning "Coerced") is a legal category of Jews in halakha (Jewish law) who were forced to abandon Judaism against their will, typically while forcibly converted to another religion. The term "anusim" is most properly translated as the "coerced [ones]" or the "forced [ones]".

The term Anusim derives from the Talmudic phrase averah b’ones (עבירה באונס‎), meaning "a forced transgression." The Hebrew ones (pronounced "oh'nes") derives from the triconsonantal root א-נ-ס (Aleph-Nun-Samekh), and originally referred to any case where a Jew has been forced into any act against his or her will. In Modern Hebrew, the word ones is mainly used to mean rape, thus "Anusim" (or female "Anusot") nowadays meaning rape victims - the older meaning used only in the historical context.


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