Remnants of Crypto-Jews Among Hispanic Americans

by Gloria Golden

Hidden deep in the heart of the American Southwest among the larger Hispanic population are descendants of the Sephardim, Jews from Spain and Portugal. Five hundred years after their expulsion from Spain remnants of Judaism are still practiced within Southwestern Hispanic communities. Often unaware of their origins, conversos have revealed, through oral history, how the ancestral faith of the Crypto-Jews has been passed on from generation to generation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915745569
• ISBN13: 9780915745562
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Floricanto Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"