Author: GITLITZ, DAVID M.
Title: Secrecy and Deceit - the Religion of Crypto-Jews
Description: Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0827605625. "Documents the religious customs of the Iberian Jews who converted to Catholicism, largely under duress, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Details crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexico, Peru and Brazil. Uses Inquisition records, chronicles, rabbinical rulings, letters, eyewitness accounts, religious books, and other historical documents to give the most thorough and accurate picture of crypto-Jews ever cataloged." - dust jacket. xvi, 677 pages. Footnotes. List of Works Cited. Index. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality example of this most informative study. ; 4to. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0827605625 Marranos Life Ethnic Relations Crypto History Judaica