Hidden Heritage : The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Los Angeles :
University of California Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


