Society For Crypto Judaic Studies
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Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation by Miriam Bodian. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1997. For those interested in the life of the conversos who moved to Amsterdam in the 16th and 17th centuries, the book written by Miriam Bodian provides an excellent insight on the conversos. The author analyzes the reasons why they left Portugal and Spain after they had converted to Christianity and difficulties encountered in the transition from Catholicism to Judaism. Also, she provides an excellent picture of the conversos and Jewish communal life: synagogues, social classes, and the Sephardim cemeteries. |