Secret Jews: The Complex Identity of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Judaism

by Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez

This book reviews types of Iberian Conversos (i.e. primarily forced but also voluntary Jewish converts to Christianity) from the late 14th to the 17th centuries and surveys the Christian and Jewish attitudes towards them. The book begins with a brief history of Jewish life in the Iberian Peninsula noting critical events such as the forced conversions of Jews under the Visigoths and the Almohades. The direct events leading to mass conversions of Jews...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1539620875
• ISBN13: 9781539620877
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"