The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture

by Dalia Kandiyoti

Book Overview

Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503612295
• ISBN13: 9781503612297
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"