Janet Jacobs

Hidden Heritage

The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews

Buch

Janet Jacobs enters fearlessly into the house of mirrors that is Jewish-Hispanic identity, where nothing is what it appears to be. Her ethnography is about the uses of silence and the excuses of memory.-Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of LanguageJanet Jacobs's book is a beautifully written, compelling account of the experiences of contemporary crypto-Jews who are struggling to locate the meanings of their various identities. I know of no other works that cover this material, and Jacobs does so in a rich finely nuanced way in which she deals with issues of family, memory, community, and belonging. I love the way she draws o… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-520-23517-5
EAN: 9780520235175
Produktnummer: 1408322
Verlag: University Presses
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 210 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 272 g
Abbildungen: Trade Paperback
Gewicht: 272

Über den Autor

Janet Liebman Jacobs is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Divine Disenchantment: Deconverting from New Religions (1989) and Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self (1994), and editor of Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis: Readings in Contemporary Theory (1997).