Bastards and believers : Jewish converts and conversion from the Bible to the present / edited by Theodor Dunkelgrün and Paweł Maciejko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunkelgrün, Theodor, 1976- editor.

Maciejko, Paweł, 1971- editor.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian converts from Judaism.

Jews--Conversion to Christianity.

Jews.

Jewish converts from Christianity.

Jewish Christians.

Conversion--Christianity--History.

Conversion.

Conversion--Judaism--History.

Conversion--Christianity.

Conversion--Judaism.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 362 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book covers conversion from Christianity to Judaism and from Judaism to Christianity, but primarily the latter. It also addresses the question of whether Jewish converts to Christianity ever lose their Jewishness"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The term Ger and the concept of conversion in the Hebrew Bible / Sara Japhet

Ex-Jews and early Christians : conversion and the allure of the other / Andrew S. Jacobs

Conversion to Judaism as reflected in the rabbinic writings and culture of Medieval Ashkenaz : between Germany and Northern France / Ephraim Kanarfogel

"Cleanse me from my sin" : the social and cultural vicissitudes of a converso family in fifteenth-century Castile / Javier Castaño

Of purity, piety, and plunder: Jewish apostates and poverty in medieval Europe / Paola Tartakoff

Converso Paulinism and residual Jewishness : conversion from Judaism to Christianity as a theologico-political problem / Claude B. Stuczynski

Return by any other name : religious change among Amsterdam's new Jews / Anne Oravetz Albert

The persuasive path : Giulio Morosini's Derekh Emunah as a conversion narrative / Michela Andreatta

"Precious books" : conversion, nationality, and the novel, 1810-2010 / Sarah Gracombe

Between European Judaism and British Protestantism in the early nineteenth century / Elliott Horowitz

When life imitates art : shtetl sociability and conversion in Imperial Russia / Ellie Schainker

Opposition, integration, and ambiguity : toward a history of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate's policies on conversion to Judaism / Netanel Fisher.

Notes:

"Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from the Herbert D. Katz Publications Fund of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812251883

0812251881

OCLC:

1112785709