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Brings together key writings by one of the most distinguished and renowned Jewish historians of our time

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Marranos --- Offenses against religion --- Marranes --- Délits religieux --- History --- Religion --- Histoire --- Latin America --- Amérique latine --- Délits religieux --- Amérique latine --- Conversos --- Maranos --- New Christians (Marranos) --- Crypto-Jews --- Jewish Christians --- History. --- Conversos (Marranos) --- Religion. --- Marranos - Biography. --- MARRANES --- HISTOIRE

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Secrecy and Deceit documents the religious customs of the Iberian Jews who converted to Catholicism, largely under duress, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although many of the converts quickly melted into the Catholic mainstream, thousands of others and their descendents strove to preserve their Jewish culture despite the efforts of the Inquisition to suppress them. The author uses Inquisition records, chronicles, rabbinical rulings, letters, eyewitness accounts, religious books, and other historical documents to give the most thorough and accurate picture of crypto-Jews ever cataloged.

Jews --- Marranos --- Juifs --- Marranes --- History. --- Religious life. --- Histoire --- Vie religieuse --- Spain --- Espagne --- Ethnic relations. --- Relations interethniques --- #GGSB: Jodendom --- Conversos --- Maranos --- New Christians (Marranos) --- History --- Religious life --- Crypto-Jews --- Jewish Christians --- Conversos (Marranos) --- Jodendom

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Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies. On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nation’s Jewish community officially came to a close. The expulsion of Europe’s last major Jewish community ended more than a thousand years of unparalleled prosperity, cultural vitality and intellectual productivity. Yet, the crisis of 1492 also gave rise to a dynamic and resilient diaspora society spanning East and West. After Expulsion traces the various paths of migration and resettlement of Sephardic Jews and Conversos over the course of the tumultuous sixteenth century. Pivotally, the volume argues that the exiles did not become “Sephardic Jews” overnight. Only in the second and third generation did these disparate groups coalesce and adopt a “Sephardic Jewish” identity. After Expulsion presents a new and fascinating portrait of Jewish society in transition from the medieval to the early modern period, a portrait that challenges many longstanding assumptions about the differences between Europe and the Middle East.

Marranos --- Sephardim --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Conversos --- Maranos --- New Christians (Marranos) --- Crypto-Jews --- Jewish Christians --- History. --- History --- Influence. --- Spain --- Ethnic relations. --- Conversos (Marranos) --- Anusim --- Converts

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Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried. The Converso's Return explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history, ancestry, and identity, and asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us about how we relate to and make use of the past. Dalia Kandiyoti offers nuanced interpretations of contemporary fictional and autobiographical texts about crypto-Jews in Cuba, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey. These works not only imagine what might be missing from the historical archive but also suggest an alternative historical consciousness that underscores uncommon convergences of and solidarities within Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, converso, and Sabbatean histories. Steeped in diaspora, Sephardi, transamerican, Iberian, and world literature studies, The Converso's Return illuminates how the converso narrative can enrich our understanding of history, genealogy, and collective memory.

Literature, Modern. --- Conversos. --- Sephardi history. --- critical genealogy. --- crypto-Jews. --- historical consciousness. --- historical fiction. --- missing archives. --- returns in literature. --- the production of remnants. --- world literature. --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern