The Marrano Legacy chronicles the astounding, intensely personal
correspondence between two strangers from different countries who
shared the unusual experience of discovering in their teens that
they were Jews: "Simon," a descendant of Spain's medieval Marranos
who submitted to baptism to escape the Inquisition, and Trudi Alexy
who survived the Holocaust when her family fled from Prague to
Paris and hid in Fascist Spain as hastily baptized Catholics.
Fifty years later, when she set out to recapture her lost Jewish
identity, she discovered a spiritual kinship with the medieval
Marranos who, though they were forced to hide their Jewishness,
held to their ancient traditions in secret.
Simon has lived the hazardous life of a Crypto-Jewish Catholic
priest, providing protection to a large community of secret Jews
living as Catholics in a Latin American country. In their
correspondence, Alexy shares her own inner conflicts as she
struggles to understand why Simon continues to live in constant
danger of discovery by both Catholics and mainstream Jews,
wrestling with doubts and coping with personal tragedies that
almost cause him to abandon his faith in God and his Jewish
identity.
"Trudi Alexy has written a spellbinding book revealing the
clandestine lives of people of our times who were coerced to hide
their identities. This is not a work of fiction. The characters
presented are real persons encountered by the author and they
include confessional letters that instruct us about the gain and
losses of self-revelation."-Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, author of
"For Those Who Can't Believe"
"Ms Alexy probes skillfully the fascinating story of the
marranos (or the sephardics as they callthemselves in northern
Arizona and New Mexico). It was one of the most fascinating tales
of American history, and it should stir up strong and important
controversy."-Fr. Andrew Greeley
"What a compelling and fascinating true story! Every Jew and
every Christian should read this book. . . . I applaud Trudi Alexy
for her remarkable way of uncovering and telling a story that we've
never been told before, but that helps to make sense of so much of
the painful clashes of our history."-Len Felder, Ph.D., author of
"The Ten Challenges"
General
Imprint: |
University of New Mexico Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2003 |
First published: |
March 2003 |
Authors: |
Trudi Alexy
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Dimensions: |
216 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8263-3055-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
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LSN: |
0-8263-3055-X |
Barcode: |
9780826330550 |
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