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Secrecy and Deceit

The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

By: David Martin Gitlitz

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Secrecy and Deceit

The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

By: David Martin Gitlitz

Comprehensive history of crypto-Jewish beliefs and social customs.

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082632813X

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Secrecy and Deceit

The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

By: David Martin Gitlitz

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The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

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Comprehensive history of crypto-Jewish beliefs and social customs.

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Pilgrimage [2 volumes]

From the Ganges to Graceland, An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: Linda Kay Davidson,David M. Gitlitz

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From the Ganges to Graceland, An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: Linda Kay Davidson,David M. Gitlitz

Nationalistic meccas, shrines to popular culture, and sacred traditions for the world's religions from Animism to Zoroastrianism are all examined in two accessible and comprehensive volumes. Pilgrimage is a comprehensive compendium of the basic facts on Pilgrimage from ancient times to the 21st century. Illustrated with maps and photographs that enrich the reader's journey, this authoritative volume explores sites, people, activities, rites, terminology, and other matters related to pilgrimage such as economics, tourism, and disease. Encompassing all major and minor world religions, from ancient cults to modern faiths, this work covers both religious and secular pilgrimage sites. Compiled by experts who have authored numerous books on pilgrimage and are pilgrims in their own right, the entries will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576075435

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9781576075432

The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

The Complete Cultural Handbook

By: David M. Gitlitz,Linda Kay Davidson

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The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

The Complete Cultural Handbook

By: David M. Gitlitz,Linda Kay Davidson

The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the resting place of the Apostle St. James. Today, the system of trails and roads that made up the old pilgrimage route is the most popular long-distance trail in Europe, winding from the heights of the Pyrenees to the gently rolling fields and woods of Galicia. Hundreds of thousands of modern-day pilgrims, art lovers, historians, and adventurers retrace the road today, traveling through a stunningly varied landscape which contains some of the most extraordinary art and architecture in the western world. For any visitor, the Road to Santiago is a treasure trove of historical sites, rustic Spanish villages, churches and cathedrals, and religious art. To fully appreciate the riches of this unique route, look no further than The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago, a fascinating step-by-step guide to the cultural history of the Road for pilgrims, hikers, and armchair travelers alike. Organized geographically, the book covers aspects of the terrain, places of interest, history, artistic monuments, and each town and village's historical relationship to the pilgrimage. The authors have led five student treks along the Road, studying the art, architecture, and cultural sites of the pilgrimage road from southern France to Compostela. Their lectures, based on twenty-five years of pilgrimage scholarship and fieldwork, were the starting point for this handbook.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466825987

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Living in Silverado

Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico

By: David M. Gitlitz

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Living in Silverado

Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico

By: David M. Gitlitz

In this thoroughly researched work, David M. Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico’s silver mining towns. Previous studies of sixteenth-century Mexican crypto-Jews focus on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but here Gitlitz looks beyond Mexico’s major population center to explore how clandestine religious communities were established in the reales, the hinterland mining camps, and how they differed from those of the capital in their struggles to retain their Jewish identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. In Living in Silverado Gitlitz paints an unusually vivid portrait of the lives of Mexico’s early settlers. Unlike traditional scholarship that has focused mainly on macro issues of the silver boom, Gitlitz closely analyzes the complex workings of the haciendas that mined and refined silver, and in doing so he provides a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of Mexico’s early secret Jews.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826360807

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9780826360809

A Drizzle of Honey

The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

By: David M. Gitlitz,Linda Kay Davidson

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A Drizzle of Honey

The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

By: David M. Gitlitz,Linda Kay Davidson

When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices and "grilled" the servants, neighbors, and even the children of those suspected of practicing their religion at home. From these testimonies and other primary sources, Gitlitz & Davidson have drawn a fascinating, award-winning picture of this precarious sense of Jewish identity and have re-created these recipes, which combine Christian & Islamic traditions in cooking lamb, beef, fish, eggplant, chickpeas, and greens and use seasonings such as saffron, mace, ginger, and cinnamon. The recipes, and the accompanying stories of the people who created them, promise to delight the adventurous palate and give insights into the foundations of modern Sephardic cuisine.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466824778

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The Hodder Compendium of Christian Curiosities

By: David Moloney

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The Hodder Compendium of Christian Curiosities

By: David Moloney

Fascinating facts, enlightening lists and random observations on our rich, historic and extraordinary faith

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444717383

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9781444717389

The Coffee Trader

A Novel

By: David Liss

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The Coffee Trader

A Novel

By: David Liss

The Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of the year. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659—a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success—a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called “coffee.” To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam’s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.

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Ballantine Books

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1588362418

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9781588362414

Chemical Principles of Environmental Pollution, Second Edition

By: Brian Alloway,David C. Ayres

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Chemical Principles of Environmental Pollution, Second Edition

By: Brian Alloway,David C. Ayres

An authoritative introduction to the scientific principles underlying environmental pollution, this book covers the transport, toxicity, and analysis of pollutants and discusses the major types of contaminant chemicals. Students will gain an understanding of the scientific principles of pollution at the chemical level and be able to approach the contentious issues in a rational way. Taking a pollution oriented approach, the authors discuss legislative limits, analysis of metals, oestrogenic chemicals, indoor and vehicular pollution, pesticides, dioxin-like substances, and more.

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CRC Press

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0751403806

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The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580

By: David Gaimster

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The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580

By: David Gaimster

Traditionally the Reformation has been viewed as responsible for the rupture of the medieval order and the foundation of modern society. Recently historians have challenged the stereotypical model of cataclysm, and demonstrated that the religion of Tudor England was full of both continuities and adaptations of traditional liturgy, ritual and devoti

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Routledge

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1351546619

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Mother Knew Best

Wit and Wisdom from the Moms of Celebrities

By: Elsa Hornfischer,David Hornfischer

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Mother Knew Best

Wit and Wisdom from the Moms of Celebrities

By: Elsa Hornfischer,David Hornfischer

How do our mothers' words shape our lives as adults? This inspiring collection features 101 true stories about the mothers of the famously successful, illustrating how their wisdom, advice, support - and even discouragement - touched and shaped their children's lives. This timeless book - a perfect gift, and a treasury of advice for today's moms - features motherly quotations and anecdotes grouped into seven basic virtues: Ambition, Courage, Devotion, Faith, Perspective, Responsibility, and Self-Discipline. We hear from the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr. ("You must never feel that you are less than anybody else"), Elvis Presley ("Son, take this guitar - you're not going to get a rifle"), and many other moms of children we all know. The first of its kind and full of surprises, this joyous celebration of motherhood is sure to find a place in the hearts of all mothers and their children.

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David and Elsa Hornfischer

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0452276187

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The Natural Wealth of Nations

Harnessing the Market and the Environment

By: David Roodman

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The Natural Wealth of Nations

Harnessing the Market and the Environment

By: David Roodman

Every year, the world's governments spend over US $700 billion subsidizing activities that harm the environment. The Natural Wealth of Nations shows how cutting these wasteful subsidies can actually boost the economy, save tax and help the environment. By raising taxes on harmful activities like air pollution whilst cutting taxes on payrolls and profits, pollution is discouraged and both work and investment boosted. In a comprehensive global survey, The Natural Wealth of Nations provides examples from Sweden to Spain to Malalysia of the growing number of countries that are successfully using these market-based approaches to clean up their environments. This is an accessible, practical book offering concrete proposals for cleaning up the world?s environment and overcoming ecological ignorance.

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Routledge

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1134189095

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A Drizzle of Honey

The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

By: David M. Gitlitz,Linda Kay Davidson

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The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

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Macmillan + ORM

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The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

The Complete Cultural Handbook

By: David M. Gitlitz,Linda Kay Davidson

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The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

The Complete Cultural Handbook

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Book's by David Martin Gitlitz

Secrecy and Deceit

Secrecy and Deceit

Secrecy and Deceit

Secrecy and Deceit

Pilgrimage [2 volumes]

Pilgrimage [2 volumes]

The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

Living in Silverado

Living in Silverado

A Drizzle of Honey

A Drizzle of Honey

The Hodder Compendium of Christian Curiosities

The Hodder Compendium of Christian Curiosities

The Coffee Trader

The Coffee Trader

Chemical Principles of Environmental Pollution, Second Edition

Chemical Principles of Environmental Pollution, Second Edition

The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580

The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580

Mother Knew Best

Mother Knew Best

The Natural Wealth of Nations

The Natural Wealth of Nations

A Drizzle of Honey

A Drizzle of Honey

The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

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