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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunkelgrün, Theodor, 1976- editor.

Maciejko, Paweł, 1971- editor.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts.

Jewish Culture and Contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian converts from Judaism.

Jews--Conversion to Christianity.

Jews.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.) : 1 illus.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own and speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life.

Contents:

Cover

Bastards and Believers

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Term Ger and the Concept of Conversion in the Hebrew Bible

Chapter 2. Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other

Chapter 3. Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France

Chapter 4. Of Purity, Piety, and Plunder: Jewish Apostates and Poverty in Medieval Europe

Chapter 5. "Cleanse Me from My Sin": The Social and Cultural Vicissitudes of a Converso Family in Fifteenth-Century Castile

Chapter 6. Converso Paulinism and Residual Jewishness: Conversion from Judaism to Christianity as a Theologico-political Problem

Chapter 7. Return by Any Other Name: Religious Change Among Amsterdam's New Jews

Chapter 8. The Persuasive Path: Giulio Morosini's Derekh Emunah as a Conversion Narrative

Chapter 9. "Precious Books": Conversion, Nationality, and the Novel, 1810-2010

Chapter 10. Between European Judaism and British Protestantism in the Early Nineteenth Century

Chapter 11. When Life Imitates Art: Shtetl Sociability and Conversion in Imperial Russia

Chapter 12. Opposition, Integration, and Ambiguity: Toward a History of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate's Policies on Conversion to Judaism

Notes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812296754

0812296753

OCLC:

1156230582