Five centuries after the forced Conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos\' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination.
The Converso\'.
This seemingly remote History has inspired a wave of Contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried.
Five centuries after the forced Conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos\' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination