Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews

Author/Contributor(s):	Jacobs, Janet
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	09/16/2002
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.