Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of Crypto-Jews

David M. Gitlitz

ISBN 10: 0827605625 / ISBN 13: 9780827605626

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1996

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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uses Inquisition records, chronicles, rabbinical rulings, letters, eyewitness accounts, religious books, and other historical documents to give the most thorough and accurate picture of crypto-Jews ever cataloged.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David M. Gitlitz has taught at Indiana University, the University of Nebraska, SUNY-Binghamton, and the University of Rhode Island, where he also served as provost.

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Titel: Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of ...
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
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