the term marranos in his 1932 book A History of the Marranos, but, because of the negative meaning attached to the word marrano by supporters of the Inquisition, today the term preferred by descendants and scholars is Crypto-Jews (i.e., Secret Jews), or anusim (Hebrew for forced ones) External links Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies webpage Judaic studies Jewish history organizations Sephardi Jewish culture in the United States Crypto-Judaism Research institutes established in 1990 1990 establishments in the United States