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FYI, and that of other ROOSA cousins, transcribed from
HIDDEN HERITAGE THE LEGACY OF THE CRYPTO-JEWS by Janet
Liebman Jacobs (2002), excerpts pgs. 10-12: "As the historical overview suggests, knowledge of medival and pre-modern crypto-Jews is primarily derived from examination
of Inquisition records and testimony of those accused of
Judaizing...,the trial records of the Inquisition have served as a starting point from which to begin the investigation into crypto-Judaism as it existed in earlier centuries. For scholars of twentieth-century remnant culture, however, the task of documenting and verifying crypto-Jewish survival has become more difficult, especially because the end of the Inquisition brought an
end to the detailed record keeping on hidden religious
practices. As a result, scholars in the field of
twentieth-century crypto-Jewish studies HAVE HAD TO RELY
ON SOURCES OTHER THAN Church records to substantiate the
continued existance of crypto-Jewish culture in contemporary
society. For historians, the Church material helped to reveal the plethora of Jewish rites that formed the body of
crypto-Jewish observance. By comparison, investigation
into the twentieth-century phenomenon have been less
systemized AND MORE ANTECDOTAL...As distinguished from the
archival research on historical crypto-Jews, contemporary
studies for the most part RELY ON PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION,
ORAL HISTORIES, AND FAMILY NARRATIVES that attest to the
presence and survival of Jewish-based rituals and customs
,...DESCENDANT NARRATIVES AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTS have
thus REPLACED Inquisition documents AS THE PRIMARY SOURCE
OF SCHOLARSHIP on the survival of crypto-Jewish culture...
As the research expanded into the late twentieth-century,
descendants' claims to Jewish origins were often challenged,
while THEIR NARRATIVES of cultural survival were frequently
met with skepticism,...Among scholars, ancestorial
crypto-Jewish heritage soon became an area of contested
indentity, sparking debates between THOSE WHO ACCEPTED THE PLAUSIBILITY of the survival of remnant crypto-Jewish practices and beliefs and those who challenged the claims of modern descendants...Keenly aware of the questions surrounding descendant credibility and the significance of
ancestorial origins, I carefully considered the criteria that I would use to define the parameter of my own study
of this unique and contested cultural phenomenon...I developed three indicators of crypto-Jewish heritage that
guided my research process. These were the existance of
Jewish based rituals in the family of origin, the existance
of Inquisitional records BEARING JEWISH FAMILY NAMES,
AND THE ORAL TRANSMISSION OF JEWISH ANCESTRY BY FAMILY
MEMBERS. According to these criteria, I included in the project descendants from diverse cultural and and geographic
backgrounds WHOSE NARRATIVES AND LIFE HISTORIES REVEALED the
presence of crypto-Jewish ancestry in their family backgrounds. Using the ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS of IN-DEPTH
INTERVIEWS and participant observation, I collected
data on twentieth-century crypto-Jewish descendants..."
--Gregory Thompson, descendant of ALBERT HEYMANSE(N) ROOSA
the JEW
p.s.: the same holds true for my ROOSEVELT-cousins & my
KORTRIGHT/COURTRIGHT-cousins. I also descend from these
MARRANO & CONVERSO families as well that left the religious
troubles in SPAIN seeking asylum in the then SPANISH NETHERLANDS in HOLLAND. All three SPANISH FAMILIES end-up
for a time settled in GELDERLAND, HOLLAND.
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