Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews by David M. Gitlitz

Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

David M. Gitlitz

699 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

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This important history 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 idiosy...

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