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Hidden heritage : the legacy of the Crypto-Jews /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobs, Janet Liebman
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Marranos > United States > History.
Jews > United States > History.
Marranos > Religious life.
Marranos > Social life and customs.
Jews > Identity.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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