{"product_id":"the-faith-of-remembrance-marrano-labyrinths-jewish-culture-and-contexts-9780812244557","title":"The Faith of Remembrance Marrano Labyrinths","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers portraits of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Marranos: Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism but secretly retained their own faith. Merging the concerns of an anthropologist with his skills as a historian, Wachtel traces their odyssey from early modern Europe to twenty-first-century Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom reviews of the French edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most important books on crypto-Judaism in the New World, bringing together Wachtel's classic combination of anthropologist and historian into psychological and spiritual investigations of the Marrano community. Based heavily on archival research of Inquisition cases in Mexico City and Lima, this book stresses the syncretist tendency of this group whose knowledge of Judaism and Hebrew was minimal and who couldn't help mixing in a good deal of Christian practice and theology.\"—Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wachtel is truly a brilliant and impeccable scholar. Innovative and massively researched, \u003ci\u003eThe Faith of Remembrance\u003c\/i\u003e is written from the heart.\"—Nancy Farriss, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wachtel unravels the complex history of each case study with the mix of prudence and audacity that has become his trademark. It is at this level that his microanalytic approach demonstrates its full potential: not only does it allow the author to be attentive to the details, opacities, and contradictions of each episode, but it also makes possible a keen contextualization of the Marrano experience.\"—Jacques Revel, \u003ci\u003eAnnales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wachtel combines a rigorous microhistorical inquiry with the desire to bring us 'the lived, the affective, and the immediate,' or the emotion aroused by sampling the chronicles of suffering in the jails of the Holy Office. With the help of a wealth of details, he immerses us . . . in the everyday world of the Marranos.\"—Danielle Rozenberg, \u003ci\u003eArchives de Sciences Sociales des Religions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e —Yosef Kaplan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Marranism and Modernity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Juan Vicente's Sanbenito\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Heaven Face to Face: Francisco Maldonado de Silva\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"They Spoke of the Things of the Law of Moses\": Manuel Bautista Perez\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"Remember the Mother of the Maccabees!\": Regarding Leonor Nuñez\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"May Everyone Be What He Is\": Francisco Botello and Maria de Zarate\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"The Law of the Name Received from the Ancients\": Fernando de Medina\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. \"Moses, Son of Queen Esther\": Theresa Paes de Jesus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. \"For in This Time All Is Lies, and All Is Truth\": João Thomas de Castro and António José da Silva\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Faith, Memory, Forgetting\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: \"Five Hundred Years of Hunger\": Returning\u003cbr\u003e Finale: Three Poems by Odmar Pinheiro Braga\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405720822103,"sku":"9780812244557","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812244557.jpg?v=1730493387","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-faith-of-remembrance-marrano-labyrinths-jewish-culture-and-contexts-9780812244557","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}