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Hidden heritage the legacy of the Crypto-Jews /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jacobs, Janet Liebman
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, c2002.
Subjects:	Marranos > United States > History. Jews > United States > History. Marranos > Religious life. Marranos > Social life and customs. Jews > Identity. United States > Ethnic relations. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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