A01=David M. Gitlitz
Author_David M. Gitlitz
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Category=QRJ
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- ISBN 9780826328137
- Weight: 1340g
- Dimensions: 175 x 252mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2002
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. In coping with clandestineness, crypto-Jews rapidly evolved their own idiosyncratic religion. Its Jewish core was quickly replaced with concepts and practices from the surrounding Catholic culture covered by a veneer of Jewish theology. Included in this award-winning volume are examinations of crypto-Jewish beliefs, superstitions, birth customs, education, marriage and sex, holidays, dietary laws, conversions, and death and burial practices. This is a comprehensive account of the customs of these secret Jews.
David M Gitlitz
