A soon to be released book titled Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging reviews the relationship between descendants of Portuguese Conversos and their interaction with contemporary Jewish communities and greater Portuguese society.
The author, Naomi Leite discusses the challenges of the descendants of Portuguese Conversos who often seek to officially rejoin the Jewish people. The Portuguese American Journal includes a brief review of this new work.
Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano-Gutierrez is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas where he earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. He studied at the Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland and received a Master of Arts Degree with Distinction in Judaic Studies.
He completed his doctoral studies at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago in 2015. His doctoral dissertation is titled “Complex Identities: Christian and Jewish Attitudes Towards Conversos” and was accepted in September 2015.
He also studied at the American Seminary for Contemporary Judaism and received rabbinic ordination in 2011 from Yeshivat Mesilat Yesharim.
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I’m very happy to see my book mentioned here! Thank you for including it. For anyone wanting to get a feel for the book and the life stories it includes, the publisher’s website has a link to download the full Introduction (pdf) for free.
I’m very happy to see my book mentioned here! Thank you for including it. For anyone wanting to get a feel for the book and the life stories it includes, the publisher’s website has a link to download the full Introduction (pdf) for free.
Happy reading,
— Naomi Leite
The link: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520285057