Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews / Secrecy and Deceit documents the religious customs of the Iberian Jews who converted to Catholicism, largely under duress, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although many of the converts quickly melted into the Catholic mainstream, thousands of others and their descendents strove to preserve their Jewish culture despite the efforts of the Inquisition to suppress them. The author uses Inquisition records, chronicles, rabbinical rulings, letters, eyewitness accounts, religious books, and other historical documents to give the most thorough and accurate picture of crypto-Jews ever cataloged.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Marranos / Spain--Jews--History
Classification	946 GIT
Publisher	Philadelphia & Jerusalem, The Jewish Publication Society, 1996
Subject	Spain--Jews--HistoryMarranosJews--Spain--HistoryMarranos--Religious life.Spain--Ethnic relations
Description	677
ISBN	9780827605626
URL	https://books.google.com.hk/books/about/Secrecy_and_Deceit.html?id=E9JtAAAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=yhttps://www.amazon.com/Secrecy-Deceit-Crypto-Jews-David-Gitlitz/dp/0827605625

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Documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. 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.