Bøker av Miriam Bodian

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how Portuguese immigrant - merchants, professionals, and intellectuals, for the most part - reasserted their Judaism, while maintaining their Iberian heritage.

The complex personalities of the martyrs, acting in response to psychic and situational pressures, emerge vividly from this absorbing book.