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Book Review
Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Michael Alpert. Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 246. $69.95.
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Known for books on the Spanish Civil War and an admirable translation of two Spanish picaresque novels, Michael Alpert's new study concerns the nature and structures of Spanish crypto-Judaism as manifested between 16001800 by "secret Jews in their eighth or later generation after baptism" (pp. 56). He consequently turns to trials of the Spanish Inquisition, in the belief that depositions by suspects and witnesses can reveal "the most intimate aspects of the religious life of a society" (p. 7). |
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