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Hidden heritage : the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / Janet Liebman Jacobs.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Janet Liebman.
- Series:
- S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crypto-Jews--United States--History.
- Crypto-Jews.
- Jews--United States--History.
- Jews.
- Crypto-Jews--Religious life.
- Crypto-Jews--Social life and customs.
- Jews--Identity.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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. 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-185) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612762741
- 9781597346535
- 1597346535
- 9780520936614
- 0520936612
- 9781282762749
- 1282762745
- OCLC:
- 437143975
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