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Author Jacobs, Janet Liebman.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, [2002]
©2002
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Description 1 online resource (x, 197 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-185) and index.
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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Subject Crypto-Jews -- Iberian Peninsula -- United States -- History.
Jews -- United States -- History.
Jews.
United States.
History.
Crypto-Jews -- Iberian Peninsula -- Religious life.
Crypto-Jews -- Iberian Peninsula -- Social life and customs.
Jews -- Identity.
Jews -- Identity.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Jacobs, Janet Liebman. Hidden heritage. Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, ©2002 0520233468 (DLC) 2002000857 (OCoLC)48920842
ISBN 9780520936614 (electronic book)
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