Hidden heritage : the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / Janet Liebman Jacobs.

By:

Jacobs, Janet Liebman

Material type: Text

TextSeries: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesPublication details: Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 197 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520936614
0520936612
0585441170
9780585441177
9780520233461
0520233468
9780520235175
0520235177
9786612762741
6612762748
1597346535
9781597346535
1282762745
9781282762749

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hidden heritage.DDC classification:

305.892/4073 21

LOC classification:

E184.36.E84 J33 2002eb

Other classification:

15.85

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Contents:

Introduction: Crypto-Jewish descent: an ethnographic study in historical perspective -- Secrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of Jewishness -- Women and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestry -- Self-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousness -- Syncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-Judaism -- Conversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soul -- Jewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion: Ethnic loss and the future of Crypto-Jewish culture.

Summary: This study of contemporary crypto-Jews - descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition - traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-185) and index.

This study of contemporary crypto-Jews - descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition - traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past.