2011/08/11

MARRANO BOOKS IN ENGLISH by David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson


Secrecy and Deceit: the religion of the crypto Jews winner of both the National Jewish Book Award and the Lucy Dawidowicz Prize in History.  

A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews, [with Linda Davidson]. winner of another National Jewish Book Award and the Jane Grigson Prize for Culinary Scholarship. 

The Lost Minyan, a collection of ten stories profiling crypto-Jews from the late 15th to early 17th centuries, just released by the University of New Mexico Press.



 http://www.gitlitzdavidson.com/

  

What others say:
 Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

"Historians and students of comparative and popular religion will be drawing on this work for years."   [Haym Soloveitchik, Yeshiva University]

Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Crypto-Jews 
"I … was mesmerized. … Easily, this is among the top three Jewish Cookbooks of the year."   [Larry Mark, SeferSafari.com (1999)]