The history and breadth of Jewish pilgrimage traditions is rich and varied. Here Gitlitz and Davidson tell the fascinating, and sometimes harrowing, story of Jewish pilgrimage from the beginnings of Judaism to the present time. They trace the history of Jewish pilgrimage and show how the repeated cycles of exile and return to Israel serve the Jews as a kind of pilgrimage in reverse. This lively account is sure to appeal to anyone interested in religious pilgrimage, tourism, and travel.
From Jerusalem and the Mt. of Olives, to the tombs of King David, Rachel, and Joseph, from Galilee to...
The history and breadth of Jewish pilgrimage traditions is rich and varied. Here Gitlitz and Davidson tell the fascinating, and sometimes harrowing...
This important history documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. In coping with clandestineness, crypto-Jews rapidly evolved their own idiosyncratic religion. Its Jewish core was quickly replaced with concepts and practices from the surrounding Catholic culture covered by a veneer of Jewish theology. Included in this award-winning volume are examinations of crypto-Jewish beliefs, superstitions, birth customs, education, marriage and sex, holidays, dietary laws, conversions and death, and...
This important history documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexic...
Between 1391 and 1492 a substantial number of Spains Jewish community converted to Catholicism, either voluntarily or through physical or psychological coercion. In 1478 Spain established an Inquisition to induce individuals to recant their heretical beliefs and adhere to orthodox Christian practices. To encourage individuals to do so the punishment of sinners was made into a public, exemplary event. The Lost Minyan profiles ten crypto-Jewish families in the throes of coping with the trauma of living between worlds, neither wholly Catholic nor wholly Jewish.
Between 1391 and 1492 a substantial number of Spains Jewish community converted to Catholicism, either voluntarily or through physical or psychologica...
