ISBN:
9780520936614
,
0520936612
,
0585441170
,
9780585441177
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 197 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Melammed, Renée Levine Hidden heritage. The legacy of the crypto-Jews. By Janet Leibman Jacobs. (The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies.) Pp. xi+197. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2002. £35 (cloth), £13.95 (paper). 0 520 23346 8; 0 520 23517 7 2004
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Glazier, Stephen D. [Rezension von: Jacobs, Janet Liebman, Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews] 2003
Series Statement:
S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Hidden heritage
DDC:
305.8924073
Keywords:
Marranos History
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United States
;
Jews History
;
United States
;
Marranos Religious life
;
Marranos Social life and customs
;
Jews Identity
;
Marranos Social life and customs
;
Jews Identity
;
Marranos Religious life
;
Marranos History
;
Jews History
;
Marranos Social life and customs
;
Jews Identity
;
Marranos Religious life
;
Marranos History
;
Jews History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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RELIGION ; Christianity ; General
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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Jews ; Identity
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Marranos
;
Marranos ; Social life and customs
;
Identität
;
Judentum
;
Joden
;
Identiteit
;
Marranen
;
History
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
United States
;
Verenigde Staten
;
Marranen
;
USA
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Crypto-Jewish descent: an ethnographic study in historical perspectiveSecrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of JewishnessWomen and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestrySelf-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousnessSyncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-JudaismConversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soulJewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion: Ethnic loss and the future of Crypto-Jewish culture.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-185) and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520233461.001.0001
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