Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and
Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos'
descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light
and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This
seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary
writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets,
and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had
been presumed dead and buried. The Converso's Return explores the
cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest
in converso and crypto-Jewish history, ancestry, and identity, and
asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us
about how we relate to and make use of the past. Dalia Kandiyoti
offers nuanced interpretations of contemporary fictional and
autobiographical texts about crypto-Jews in Cuba, Mexico, New
Mexico, Spain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey. These works
not only imagine what might be missing from the historical archive
but also suggest an alternative historical consciousness that
underscores uncommon convergences of and solidarities within
Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, converso, and Sabbatean histories.
Steeped in diaspora, Sephardi, transamerican, Iberian, and world
literature studies, The Converso's Return illuminates how the
converso narrative can enrich our understanding of history,
genealogy, and collective memory.
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