Book Details
No other scholar has explored the plight of crypto-Jews from a social-psychological point of view. Persecuted for centuries in Spain and in its colonies, crypto-Jews practiced their religion in secret and through often modified Jewish rituals, synthesizing Judaism and Catholicism in ways that have been handed down through generations. Jacobs investigates how contemporary crypto-Jews have uncovered their true ancestry and today live with the discovery of their families' Sephardic history, examining how those who chose conversion in response to this discovery have developed their spirituality and Jewish worldview.
The result is a captivating account of a group's struggle to piece together a more complete -- and therefore accurate -- personal and religious history. Jacobs's fifty in-depth interviews with crypto-Jewish descendants raise momentous questions about secrecy, gender, power, and tradition.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Jacobs, Jane
- ISBN13 9780520235175
- ISBN10 0520235177
- Pages 197
- Published 2001
Hidden heritage, The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews
- Author Jane Jacobs
- Publisher CALIFORNIA
- ISBN 9780520235175