Author: Jacobs, Janet Liebman
Title: Hidden Heritage : The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, x,197 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: 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 ["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" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: Sephardic Jewry, Marranos, United States, Crypto-Jews, Sephardim, Ethnic Identity, Social History, Sociology, Jewish Ethnicity