Statement
In the final chapter, Novinsky asks what the Brazilian New Christian was, the divided man between being Christian and being Jewish.
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References
p. 210
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Novinsky. Ensaios sobre cristãos-novos, Inquisição e Brasil colonial. New Christians in Bahia (1624-1654). São Paulo: Tese de doutoramento, FFLCH-USP, 1970.
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Scholarly debate
Was marranism in colonial Brazil mainly crypto-Jewish practice or a worldview?
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- A
Worldview and feeling
Anita Novinsky
In Minas, being a marrano was more a feeling and approach to life than stable ritual crypto-Judaism.
- B
Near-total assimilation
Historiography Novinsky criticizes
Readings that minimize New Christians treat colonial Jewish presence as residual or irrelevant.