Jacobs, Janet Liebman.

Hidden heritage the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / [electronic resource] : Janet Liebman Jacobs. - Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, c2002. - x, 197 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-185) and index.

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


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Marranos--History.--United States
Jews--History.--United States
Marranos--Religious life.
Marranos--Social life and customs.
Jews--Identity.


United States--Ethnic relations.


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