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Miriam Bodian. Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xvii, 278 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2009

Claude B. Stuczynski
Affiliation:
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Book Reviews: Medieval Jewish Culture
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 2009

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