Iberian new Christians and their descendants / edited by Abraham Gross, Adina Moryosef and Jack Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gross, Abraham, editor.

Moryosef, Adina, editor.

Cohen, Jack, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism--History--18th century.

Catholic Church.

Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--History.

Crypto-Jews.

Conversion--Catholic Church--History--18th century.

Conversion.

Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church--History--18th century.

Judaism.

Sephardim--History--18th century.

Sephardim.

Interfaith relations.

History.

Relations.

Conversion--Catholic Church.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 183 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Contents:

Section 1 Roots and Reality: General Perspectives of Contemporary Descendants

Chapter 1 Iberian-Jewish Common Roots-The DNA Perspective p. 6 / Max Blankfeld

Chapter 2 Latino Jewish Demography: The Real and the Virtual p. 18 / Sergio DellaPergola

Chapter 3 The Origin of the Bnei Anousim in Brazil p. 35 / Anita Novinsky

Chapter 4 The Genetic Heritage of the Jewish Descendants in Portugal and the Diaspora Communities in Brazil p. 41 / Inês Nogueiro and António Amorim and Leonor Gusmão and Luis Alvarez

Chapter 5 Emic and Etic Considerations in the Understanding of Authenticity and the Construction of Crypto-Jewish Identity p. 53 / Seth Kunin

Chapter 6 How Holy is the Holy Seed? The Attitude of Orthodox Judaism toward the Maternal Non-Jew-A Legal and Historical Discussion p. 73 / Moshe Pinchuk

Section 2 New Christians and the Bnei Anousim: From Documental Historiography to Field Research

Chapter 7 Inquisition Documents: A Genealogical Tool, A Window on a World p. 82 / David Gitlitz

Chapter 8 New Christians and Bnei Anousim in Brazil: Status and Desiderata p. 101 / Lina Gorenstein

Chapter 9 The Dimming of the Diamond's Twinkle: The Fall of the "Eldorado" Myth in Brazil p. 115 / Daniela Levy

Chapter 10 Bento Texeira, the First Poet of Brazil, and the "School of Satan" p. 122 / Eneida Beraldi Ribeiro

Chapter 11 On the Spiritual Routes of the Portuguese Marranos-The Apostates, the Banished, and the Secret Ones p. 131 / Elvira Azevedo Mea

Chapter 12 The Fate of Anousim Along the West Coast of Africa p. 143 / Tudor Parfitt

Chapter 13 Reflections on the Current State of Latino-Jewish Heritage Research p. 154 / Schulamith C. Halevy

Chapter 14 A Marrano Memory in Peru? p. 163 / Nathan Wachtel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781527535060

1527535061

OCLC:

1104634956

Publisher Number:

99981954737