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‘The Longing’ documents crypto-Jews caught between two worlds

When Gabriela Böhm set out to create her documentary, \”The Longing: The Forgotten Jews of South America,\” several years ago, she hoped to profile an as-yet-undiscovered secret community of Crypto Jews — descendants of Jews forced to flee the Spanish Inquisition who continued practicing rituals covertly.\n

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