Marranos on the Moradas : secret Jews and Penitentes in the southwestern United States, from 1590 to 1890 /

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Author / Creator:	Simms, Norman Toby.
Imprint:	Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 509 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Judaism and Jewish life Judaism and Jewish life.
Subject:	Hermanos Penitentes -- Southwest, New -- History. Hermanos Penitentes -- Southwest, New -- Religion. Hermanos Penitentes. Marranos -- Southwest, New -- History. Jews -- Southwest, New -- History. Marranos -- Religious life -- Southwest, New. Marranos -- Southwest, New -- Social life and customs. Jews. Marranos. Marranos -- Social life and customs. Religion. Southwest, New -- Religious life and customs. New Southwest. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121675

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ISBN:	9781618110329 1618110322 9781934843321 1934843326
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-500) and index. In English.
Summary:	Two groups were persecuted over the course of four hundred years in what is now the southwestern United States, each dissimulating and disguising who they truly were. Both now declare their true identities, yet raise hostility. The Penitentes are a lay Catholic brotherhood that practices bloody rites of self-flagellation and crucifixion, but claim this is a misrepresentation and that they are a community and a charitable organization. Marranos, an ambiguous and complicated population of Sephardic descendants, claim to be anousim. Both peoples have a complex, shared history. This book disentangles the web, redefines the terms, and creates new contexts in which these groups are viewed with respect and sympathy without idealizing or slandering them. Simms uses rabbinics, literary analyses, psychohistory, and cultural anthropology to consolidate a history of mentalities.
Other form:	Print version: Simms, Norman. Marranos on the Moradas : Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States. Boston : Academic Studies Press, ©2009 9781934843321
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781618110329.

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