Charles Meyers and Norman Simms are planning to produce an
anthology of essays on the Marranos/Crypto-Jews in Europe and the New World colonies
during the 15th through 17th centuries.
Papers are called for to deal with such areas as: Identity Confusions amongst individuals
and family groups; traumatic illness amongst the forced Catholic converts and children of
conversos; religious practices of Conversos influenced by Inquisition codes and trials;
the development of new kinds of Jewish communal organization and education in small
isolated groups; manuals of instruction in Jewish tradition and custom; life-histories of
Coversos; the viability of Jewish identity in unconventional and non-halakhic
circumstances; and case histories of Conversos returning to Judaism.
All papers should be approximately 4,000 words, normally
unpublished, and submitted in typed form in duplicate plus on disk Word 6.1 or 5.1. Please
enclose a brief bio-bibliography.
Deadline: 15 April 2000
Send to:
Dr. Norman Simms
Dr. Charles Meyers
History Department
Independent Scholar
Waikato University
7409 Ansley Drive
Private Bag 3105
Lake Worth, Florida 33467
Hamilton, New Zealand
Thank you.
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