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In a series of intimate and searing portraits, Nathan Wachtel traces the journeys of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Marranos Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism but secretly retained their own faith. Fleeing persecution in their Iberian homeland, some sought refuge in the Americas, where they established transcontinental networks linking the New World to the Old. The Marranos at once Jewish and Christian, outsiders and insiders nurtured their hidden beliefs within their new communities, participating in the economic development of the early...

The recent wave of interest in oral history and return to the active subject as a topic in historical practice raises a number of questions about the status and function of scholarly history in our societies. This articles in this volume, originally pubished in 1990, and which originally appeared in "History and Anthropology, Volume 2, Part 2, " discuss what contributions, meanings and consequences emerge from scholarly history turning to living memory, and what the relationships are between history and memory.