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Hidden heritage : the legacy of the Crypto-Jews
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- Creator
- Janet Liebman Jacobs
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- x, 197 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780585441177, 0520235177, 0520233468, 9786612762741, 6612762748, 9781282762749, 9781597346535, 9780520233461, 1282762745, 9780520235175, 0520936612, 1597346535, 9780520936614, 0585441170
- OCLC
- ocm48920842, ocm51822234, ocn437143975
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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