| Summary: | Documents the religious customs of the Iberian Jews who converted to Catholicism, largely under duress, in the 14th and 15th centuries. Gitlitz details crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico. In coping with the necessity to be clandestine, crypto-Jews rapidly evolved their own idiosyncratic religion. Its Jewish core was replaced with concepts and practices from the surrounding Catholic culture covered by a veneer of Jewish theology. Gitlitz describes the Jewish customs which survived this process. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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