Secret Sabbath: A Spiritual Journey into the Lives of Modern Crypto-Jews

Based on over three decades of firsthand interviews spanning four continents, The Secret Sabbath explores the personal and emotional aspects of the crypto-Jewish experience around the world—from Spain and Portugal to the Americas and beyond.

The Iberian Peninsula was a cruel place for Jews in the early modern age. In 1492, more than a hundred thousand Spanish Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism on pain of expulsion. In many cases, these “New Christians” did not mix with Old Christians...