Masks in the Mirror: Marranism in Jewish Experience

by Norman Simms

Sephardic Jews who voluntarily or forcibly converted to Catholicism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to avoid persecution or expulsion were known as conversos or New Christians. Some tried to live the double life of a Crypto-Jew, outwardly embracing Christianity while secretly maintaining Jewish practices. Others were in a state that was neither Jewish nor Christian, and, as painful and humiliating as it was, these Marranos (a term for conversos...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820481203
• ISBN13: 9780820481203
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 144 Pages