Esther in early modern Iberia and the Sephardic diaspora : queen of the conversas / Emily Colbert Cairns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cairns, Emily Colbert, author.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Esther, Queen of Persia.

Esther.

Bible. Esther--Biography.

Bible.

Bible. Esther.

Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--History--16th century.

Crypto-Jews.

Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--History--17th century.

Sephardim--History--16th century.

Sephardim.

Sephardim--History--17th century.

Jews--Iberian Peninsula--Identity--History--16th century.

Jews.

Jews--Iberian Peninsula--Identity--History--17th century.

Women in the Bible--Biography.

Women in the Bible.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

History.

Europe--Iberian Peninsula.

Local Subjects:

Bible. Esther--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan [2017]

Language Note:

In English, with occasional text in Spanish, accompanied by English translation.

Summary:

"This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people -- was contested in the cultures of early modern Europe, authored as a symbol of conformity as well as resistance. At once a queen and minority figure under threat, for a changing Iberian and broader European landscape, Esther was compelling and relatable precisely because of her hybridity. She was an early modern globetrotter and border transgressor. Emily Colbert Cairns analyzes the many retellings of the biblical heroine that were composed in a turbulent early modern Europe. These narratives reveal national undercurrents where religious identity was transitional and fluid, thus problematizing the fixed notion of national identity within a particular geographic location. This volume instead proposes a model of a Sephardic nationality that existed beyond geographical borders" -- back cover.

Contents:

Esther in Iberia & constructing a Catholic nation upon the Judeo-Christian model

A Jewish heroine in early modern Spain

Esther in the Portuguese nation

Sisters in the Law of Moses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.

ISBN:

9783319578668

3319578669

9783319862705

3319862707

9783319578675

3319578677

OCLC:

981117602