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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. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines historical and social scientific theory to fashion a brilliant analysis of hidden ancestry and the transformation of religious and ethnic identity.

Title Hidden heritage [electronic resource] : the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / Janet Liebman Jacobs.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Berkeley
Los Angeles : University of California Press
Creation Date c2002
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-185) and index.
English
Content Secrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of Jewishness -- Women and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestry -- The 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
Series S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies
Extent 1 online resource (210 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010700349005171
MARC RECORDS
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