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Alma Gottlieb

Dr. Alma Gottlieb
Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois
Visiting Scholar at Brown University
Past President of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in Spain and Portugal in the 15th century were among the original settlers of the Cape Verde islands. After the Inquisition was established, they had to go into hiding. Later, as the Inquisition was losing power, other Jews arrived from Morocco, adding a new layer of Jewish influence to this island outpost.
Dr. Gottlieb explored the 500 years of Jewish influence in Cape Verde, looking especially at present day Cape Verdean-Americans of Jewish ancestry and how they understand their mixed religious heritage. Like New Mexicans, the ancestors of these people were forced to conceal or abandon their religion. What parallels—and differences—link them with the better-known crypto-Jewish experience of New Mexico?

Gottlieb has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Social Science Research Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and other agencies for her research.

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