{"product_id":"secrecy-and-deceit-the-religion-of-the-crypto-jews-9780826328137","title":"Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews","description":"This important history documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. In coping with clandestineness, crypto-Jews rapidly evolved their own idiosyncratic religion. Its Jewish core was quickly replaced with concepts and practices from the surrounding Catholic culture covered by a veneer of Jewish theology. Included in this award-winning volume are examinations of crypto-Jewish beliefs, superstitions, birth customs, education, marriage and sex, holidays, dietary laws, conversions and death, and burial practices. Secrecy and Deceit provides a comprehensive account of the customs of these secret Jews. \"Secrecy and Deceit provides rare glimpses into a subject that is increasingly fascinating to many different audiences.\"--Jane S. Gerber, Director, Institute for Sephardic Studies, CUNY Graduate Center \"Historians and students of comparative and popular religion will be drawing on this work for years.\"--Haym Soloveitchik, Yeshiva University Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Lucy B. Davidowicz History Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid M. Gitlitz\u003c\/b\u003e (1942-2020) was a professor emeritus of Hispanic studies at the University of Rhode Island. His publications include \u003ci\u003eSecrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Minyan\u003c\/i\u003e (both from UNM Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlan Stavans\u003c\/b\u003e is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the cofounder and publisher of Restless Books, and the academic director of the Great Books Summer Program. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, his work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted into film, theater, television, and radio.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985408950546,"sku":"9780826328137","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_690ee6e6-1c5a-4144-9f32-ce9c2e689c08.jpg?v=1769533672","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/secrecy-and-deceit-the-religion-of-the-crypto-jews-9780826328137","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}