Portuguese Jews, new Christians, and 'new Jews' : a tribute to Roberto Bachmann /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:xviii, 500 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Iberian religious world, 2213-9141 ; volume 4
Iberian religious world ; v. 4.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11739001
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Other authors / contributors:Sṭuts'insḳi, Dov, editor.
Feitler, Bruno, editor.
Bachmann, Roberto, honouree.
ISBN:9789004363892
9004363890
9789004364974
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In Portuguese Jews, New Christians and 'New Jews' Claude B. Stuczynski and Bruno Feitler gather some of the leading scholars of the history of the Portuguese Jews and conversos in a tribute to their common friend and a renowned figure in Luso-Judaica, Roberto Bachmann, on the occasion of his 85th birthday. The texts are divided into five sections dealing with medieval Portuguese Jewish culture, the impact of the inquisitorial persecution, the wide range of converso identities on one side, and of the Sephardi Western Portuguese Jewish communities on the other, and the role of Portugal and Brazil as lands of refuge for Jews during the Second World War. This book is introduced by a comprehensive survey on the historiography on Portuguese Jews, New Christians and 'New Jews' and offers a contribution to Luso-Judaica studies"--
Other form:Online version: Portuguese Jews, new Christians, and 'new Jews'. Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, [2018] 9789004364974
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • 1. A Portuguese-Jewish Exception? A Historiographical Introduction
  • Part 1. From Iberia to the Mediterranean
  • 2. Medieval Hebrew-Portuguese Texts in Aljamía
  • 3. Don Isaac Abravanel and The Capture of Arzila in August 1471. Expansion, Communal Leadership and Cultural Networks
  • 4. New Sources in Portuguese Aljamiado. A Collection of Letters Concerning the Commercial Activities of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire and Italy During the Mid-Sixteenth Century
  • 5. The Orphans' Portion and the Jews of Miranda do Douro in 1490
  • Part 2. Under the Gaze of the Holy Office
  • 6. Baptized or Not? The Inquisitors' Dilemma in Trials of Portuguese Jews from Dutch Brazil, 1645-1647
  • 7. A Little-Known Gibe at the Inquisition by Father António Vieira (1608-1697)
  • 8. The Last Marranos in Venice
  • Part 3. New Christians and (Other) Identities
  • 9. Conrad Gessner Edits Brudus Lusitanus. The Trials and Tribulations of Publishing a Sixteenth Century Treatise on Dietetics
  • 10. Economic Know-How and Arbitrism in 1600. The Memoriales of Pedro de Baeça
  • 11. António and Francisco Vaz Pinto. Portuguese New Christian homens da nação in the Court of Rome
  • 12. Two Biographies of Converted Jews in Contrast. João Baptista d'Este and António Garcia Soldani
  • 13. The Ark on Stage. A Calderonian Allegory and Its Crypto-Judaic Transformation by Antonio Enriquez Gómez
  • Part 4. Western Sephardic Variations
  • 14. La Machabea and the First Portuguese of the Northern Netherlands
  • 15. Paraphrastic Commentary to the Pentateuch by Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
  • 16. D'Holbach and the Dissertation sur le Messie. Some Enigmas, and a New Source
  • 17. The Abduction of a Girl in Order to Marry Her and Other Clandestine Marriages in the Sephardic Community of London in the Early Eighteenth Century
  • 18. A Treasured Trove. Sefardic Manuscripts and Books from Altona and Hamburg
  • Part 5. Luso-Brazilian Policies during the Holocaust
  • 19. Portugal and the Holocaust
  • 20. The "New State" Regimes of Brazil and Portugal and their Diplomats Regarding the Persecution of Jews during the Holocaust. A Comparative Analysis
  • Appendix
  • 21. Chinese Porcelain Ordered by Portuguese Jews in the Diaspora
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Places