Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities

Author: Yosef Kaplan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 9004392483

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From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Europe. In those cities and later in London, Bordeaux, and Bayonne as well, Iberian conversos established their own Jewish communities, openly adhering to Judaism. Despite the features these communities shared with other confessional groups in exile, what set them apart was very significant. In contrast to other European confessional communities, whose religious affiliation was uninterrupted, the Western Sephardic Jews came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. In this edited volume, several experts in the field detail the religious and cultural changes that occurred in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities. "Highly recommended for all academic and Jewish libraries." - David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, in: Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)

Política de Dios y Gobierno de Cristo
Política de Dios y Gobierno de Cristo

Author: Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-07-08

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781514892824

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El título de la obra refleja la intención polémica de Quevedo: se opone a Maquiavelo a y quienes, como él, ven en la política el lado realista de la lucha por el poder y el mantenimiento del Estado a toda costa. De ellos es el concepto de "razón de Estado". Una inspiración tal tenía que prescindir de la idea del gobierno de Dios sobre el mundo, que obedece a su providencia. No era débil ni pequeño el enemigo al que hacía frente más el título de este libro de Quevedo que su contenido mismo: «Siempre los enemigos nos hacen mejores y más avisados». También se opone a los llamados "políticos", que, como Bodino, adoptan actitudes tolerantes frente a otras confesiones religiosas. Y a las teologías políticas luteranas, calvinistas, puritanas, anabaptistas, etc., que pugnaban por alterar el orden que hasta entonces había regido en Europa.

After Conversion
After Conversion

Author: Mercedes García-Arenal

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-09-07

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 9004324321

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This book examines the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia, where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth, and in this way it explores the fraught relationship between origins and faith. It treats also of the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and the production of knowledge, taking into account how integrating new converts from Judaism and Islam stimulated Christian scholars to confront the converts’ sacred texts and created a distinctive peninsular hermeneutics. The book thus assesses the importance of the “Converso problem” in issues such as religious dissidence, dissimulation, and doubt and skepticism while establishing the process by which religious dissidence came to be categorized as heresy and was identified with converts from Judaism and Islam even when Lutheranism was often in the background.

The Positive Image of the Jew in the 'comedia'
The Positive Image of the Jew in the 'comedia'

Author: Andrew Herskovits

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9783039105229

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Argues, contrary to most scholarly opinion, that while on the explicit level they are anti-Jewish, in a covert manner the dramatic works of the Spanish Golden Age present a positive image of the Jews. Works by Rojas, Cervantes, and, especially, Lope de Vega are shown to have used coded writing and techniques of dissimulation to subvert the dominant anti-Jewish ideology of the day, embodied in the actions of the Inquisition and in the "limpieza de sangre" statutes. A reason for the indirect approach was that the writers, who were influenced by Christian Humanism rather than by any putative Converso origin, themselves sought to escape interrogation by the Inquisition. One technique used was to replace the Converso by the figure of a persecuted woman or by a biblical, legendary, or foreign Jew. Defending the Jews was an aspect of espousal of justice for all.