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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Religious subjects depicted in art
Why does the story of secret Jews fascinate us? What is
crypto-Judaism? In recent decades religious practices that were
preserved in hiding for centuries have become more widely known.
Specifically, families of Spanish Jewish descent have retained
elements of Judaism for five hundred years. What incredible
religious and cultural tenacity! For many these elements represent
a discovered identity that helps to explain mysteries in their
lives. Is a person Jewish by genes, cultural heritage, religious
practice, or by choice? What survives for a person whose ancestors
were Jewish five hundred years ago? Fractured Faiths traces the
history of the Sephardic and converso (converted) Jews from their
Golden Age to the twenty-first century, in both the land they left
behind and in the lands they later settled. Documents, maps,
paintings, and objects illuminate the history of Sephardic Jews
from Spain to Mexico to New Mexico.
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