UID:
edocfu_9959236770002883
Format:
1 online resource (210 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612762741
,
1-59734-653-5
,
0-520-93661-2
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1-282-76274-5
Series Statement:
S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-23346-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-23517-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520936614
