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Items with the tag:

crypto-jews

Cover of The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incredible Life of Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi
Chil­dren’s
The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incred­i­ble Life of Doña Gra­cia Mendes Nasi 
Yael Zoldan
Excerpt

Excerpt — Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the His­to­ry of the Sephardic Jews

Hélène Jawhara Piñer
September 16, 2024
Essay

My Hand on His Shoul­der: A Descen­dant of Cryp­to-Jews Inserts Her­self into the His­tor­i­cal Record

Kath­leen Alcalá
June 21, 2021
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Doña Gra­ci­a’s Secret: The Adven­tures of an Extra­or­di­nary Jew­ish Woman in the Renaissance
Mar­i­lyn Froggatt
Essay

The Mik­vah

Daniela Weil
November 16, 2020
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Non­fic­tion
The Return of Car­va­jal: A Mystery
Ilan Sta­vans
Cover of The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Non­fic­tion
The Con­ver­so’s Return: Con­ver­sion and Sephar­di His­to­ry in Con­tem­po­rary Lit­er­a­ture and Culture
Dalia Kandiyoti
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Non­fic­tion
Ghet­to Broth­er: War­rior to Peacemaker
Julian Voloj
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Cryp­to-Jews and Auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal Ani­mals: Part 3 of a 3‑Part Conversation

This week father and son, neigh­bors in Brook­line, Mass­a­chu­setts and long­time col­lab­o­ra­tors, David Shray­er-Petrov and Max­im D. Shray­er dis­cuss Din­ner with Stal­in…
Max­im D. Shrayer
July 10, 2014
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Non­fic­tion
Liv­ing in Sil­ver­a­do: Secret Jews in the Sil­ver Min­ing Towns of Colo­nial Mexico
David M. Gitlitz
Essay

Your Graph­ic Nov­el and Mine

Ear­li­er this week, Ilan Sta­vans wrote about the prob­lem with aca­d­e­m­ic writ­ing and asked: Is there a Jew­ish lit­er­ary renais­sance? He has been blog­ging here…
Ilan Sta­vans
December 28, 2012
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Fic­tion
El Ilu­mi­na­do: A Graph­ic Novel
Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin
Recommended Reading

Cryp­to-Judaism Read­ing List

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIn hon­or of next week’s JBC/​Jewcy Twit­ter Book Club with Doreen Car­va­jal (The For­get­ting Riv­er), we’ve cre­at­ed a ​“Cryp­to-Judaism”…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
October 15, 2012
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Inquisi­to­r­i­al Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Oth­er Heretics
Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
Essay

Genet­ic Mem­o­ry: Feel­ing Jewish

Ear­li­er this week, Doreen Car­va­jal wrote about try­ing to recov­er her fam­i­ly’s secret iden­ti­ty and how to unlock and pre­serve mem­o­ries. She has been blog­ging…
Doreen Car­va­jal
August 17, 2012
Essay

Unlock­ing Memories

Ear­li­er this week, Doreen Car­va­jal wrote about try­ing to recov­er her fam­i­ly’s secret iden­ti­ty. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
Doreen Car­va­jal
August 15, 2012
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