Religious changes and cultural transformations in the early modern western Sephardic communities / edited by Yosef Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, Yosef, editor.

Series:

Studies in Jewish History and Culture 54.

Studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Western--History--Congresses.

Jews.

Sephardim--Europe, Western--History--Congresses.

Sephardim.

Europe, Western--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Europe, Western.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2019

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Preface / Yosef Kaplan

Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Markers of Converso Identities

A Crisis of Judeoconverso Identity and Its Echoes, 1391 to the Present / David Graizbord

A Family of the Nação from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Beyond (1497-1640) / James Nelson Novoa

Conversos versus Recusants: Shaping the Markers of Difference (1570-1680) / Natalia Muchnik

Richelieu in Marrano Garb: Conversos as Agents of the French Confessional Model, c. 1640 / Claude B. Stuczynski

Semi-Clandestine Judaism in Early Modern France: European Horizons and Local Varieties of a Domestic Devotion / Carsten L. Wilke

Prison Revelations and Jailhouse Encounters: Inquisitorial Prisons as Places of Judaizing Activism and Cross-Cultural Exchange / Ronnie Perelis

Mechanisms of Social Discipline in the Sephardic Communities

Defining Deviance, Negotiating Norms: Raphael Meldola in Livorno, Pisa, and Bayonne / Bernard Dov Cooperman

A Sephardic Saga in the Dutch Republic: The Cohen Pallache Women on Love, Religion, and Social Standing / Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld

Dispute Resolution and Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah: Community Forum and Legal Acculturation in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam / Evelyne Oliel-Grausz

The "Livro de Pleitos": The Leadership of the Spanish and Portuguese Community of London in the Eighteenth Century as a Court of Requests / Alex Kerner

Economy and Community among Italian Sephardim

Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and Ghettoization: A Trial in Ancona as a Case Study (1555-1563) / Serena Di Nepi

The Sephardic Community and Social Practices in the Circuit of Money: Social Implications of Payment Networks in the Context of the Livorninas / Mauricio Dimant

Charity Begins at Home: Reflections on the Dowry Society of Livorno / Nourit Melcer-Padon

The Boundaries of Rabbinical Authority

Jacob Sasportas and Problems of Discipline in the Ets Haim Yeshiva / Yaacob Dweck

A Letter's Importance: The Spelling of Daka(h) (Deut. 23:2) and the Broadening of Western Sephardic Rabbinic Culture / David Sclar

Hakham Yaakov Athias-A Portuguese Rabbi Facing the Winds of Enlightenment and Secularization / Yocheved Beeri

Varieties of Cultural Creativity

On the Role of Hebrew Grammars in the Western European Diaspora and the New World / Moisés Orfali

New Jews in Amsterdam: Some Social Aspects Reflected in the Thesouro dos Dinim by Menasseh ben Israel / Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt

Penso de la Vega and the Question of Jewish Baroque / Einat Davidi

Crossing the Atlantic-Sephardic Communities in the New World

Sea Is History, Sea Is Witness: The Creation of a Prosopographical Database for the Sephardic Atlantic / Michael Studemund-Halévy

Revisiting Blackness, Slavery, and Jewishness in the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic / Jonathan Schorsch

Feckless Fathers, Fraught Families: Abandonment and Cultural Change in the Early Modern Jewish World / Jessica Vance Roitman

The Gabay Dynasty: Plantation Jews of the Colonial Atlantic World / Stanley Mirvis

Patriots at the Periphery: David Nassy, the French Revolution, and the Emancipation of the Dutch Jews / Sina Rauschenbach

Back Matter

Index of Names and Places.

Notes:

"The twenty-four articles in this volume are based on lectures given at the conference that took place at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from November 14 through 16, 2016"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9789004392489

9004392483

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004392489 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access