Crypto-Jews - Duncan Hart, Ron
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At one time Spain was the center of Jewish life in Europe. Most European Jews were Spanish Jews. The most important scholars and yeshivas were there. But, Spain turned against its Jews, who had been there for a 1,500 years or more, even before the Muslims and before the Christians. Medieval Catholicism snuffed out the light of the Jews, leaving only the flickering flames of Jews in hiding. Eventually even they left Spain for fear of their lives, and their descendants survived, still hiding, in remote colonies in the Americas. For many in the United States, crypto-Judaism has been shrouded in…mehr

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At one time Spain was the center of Jewish life in Europe. Most European Jews were Spanish Jews. The most important scholars and yeshivas were there. But, Spain turned against its Jews, who had been there for a 1,500 years or more, even before the Muslims and before the Christians. Medieval Catholicism snuffed out the light of the Jews, leaving only the flickering flames of Jews in hiding. Eventually even they left Spain for fear of their lives, and their descendants survived, still hiding, in remote colonies in the Americas. For many in the United States, crypto-Judaism has been shrouded in memory, and for others it has become an imagined past that might have been, often with little information about the actual history or heritage. Today, in the American Southwest and in parts of Latin America there is a movement to reclaim Jewish identity, and people are describing remnants of Jewish practice in their families. That has sparked interest in learning more about Sepharad, the Spain of the Jews, and the Diaspora of Spanish Jews and their cousins, the crypto-Jews. Myths have grown around the concept of Sepharad sometimes obscuring the realities of what it was. There was a "golden age" for Jews in Spain during the early Muslim period, but as the reconquest heated up and Christian rule replaced that of Muslims, the Jewish experience turned dark until the last light of the Jews was put out in Spain.
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Ron Duncan Hart is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. Indiana University) with postdoctoral work in Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is former President of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico and has awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, and New Mexico Jewish Historical Society among others. Duncan Hart has done research on Sephardic traditions in Spain, North Africa, and South America with special attention to the Andalusian exchange among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He is former Dean of Academic Affairs at InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico. He was Project Director in Latin America with the Ford Foundation, the International Development Research Centre of Canada, and UNICEF. He is a former Research Associate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. He served a number of years as editor of HaLapid, the journal of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. He is author of several books on religion, cultural history and social change, including Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition and New World Identities (author/editor), and historical consultant for the exhibition of the same name at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe (2016). Fractured Faiths won the Gold Medal for the best book on a religious topic in 2018. Other books include Judaism, Sephardic Jews: History, Religion and People, and Jews and the Arab World. He has been an invited lecturer on Jewish life and culture for the New Mexico History Museum (Santa Fe), Neustadt Lecture (Oklahoma City University), the National Labor Relations Board (Washington, D.C.), and the Schlezinger Annual Lecture (Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase, Maryland) among other venues.