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Article: Two Jewish responses to the Spanish Inquisition.(Heretics)(Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile)(The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas)(Book Review)
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Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile, by Renee Levine Melammed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 268 pp., $55.
The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas, by Mordecai Arbell. Jerusalem and Hewlitt, NY: Gefen Books, 2002, 384 pp., $34.95.
The Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 15th century produced a number of different responses, varying from attempts to remain and secretly practice Jewish traditions within the Spanish Christian context to attempts to flee the region altogether. The book ...