About the Author

Renée Levine Melammed is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where she also serves as Associate Dean and head of the Women's Studies M.A. program. Her first book, Heretics or Daughters of Israel: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile (OUP, 1999) won two National Jewish Book Awards.

Reviews

"This is a well-written and documented work that even beginners in Iberian history will find easily understandable and interesting. Highly Recommended."--Choice
"This is a very well-written and documented work that even beginners in Iberian history will find easily understandable and interesting."--CHOICE
"Renée Levine Melammed has written a marvelous book of unrivaled scope that is as informative as it is a pleasure to read. Melammed offers a rich, sweeping, and beautifully detailed survey of the converso experience in its many differing manifestations across half a millennium and several continents. A Question of Identity will, I believe, take its place as the standard historical synthesis on the marrano phenomenon."--Norman A. Stillman,
Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History & Director of Judaic Studies, The University of Oklahoma
"We understand better after reading this book why Marrano identity continues to fascinate us to this day. Melammed analyzes this identity with great subtlety through this remarkable synthesis--covering many centuries and countries--which also enlightens our own preoccupations in a modernity inherited from the Marranos."--Esther Benbassa, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris
"This is a very well-written and documented work that even beginners in Iberian history will find easily understandable and interesting."--CHOICE
"This is a well-written and documented work that even beginners in Iberian history will find easily understandable and interesting. Highly Recommended."--Choice
"Renée Levine Melammed has written a marvelous book of unrivaled scope that is as informative as it is a pleasure to read. Melammed offers a rich, sweeping, and beautifully detailed survey of the converso experience in its many differing manifestations across half a millennium and several continents. A Question of Identity will, I believe, take its place as the standard historical synthesis on the marrano phenomenon."--Norman A. Stillman,
Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History & Director of Judaic Studies, The University of Oklahoma
"We understand better after reading this book why Marrano identity continues to fascinate us to this day. Melammed analyzes this identity with great subtlety through this remarkable synthesis--covering many centuries and countries--which also enlightens our own preoccupations in a modernity inherited from the Marranos."--Esther Benbassa, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris