Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’ write by Claude B. Stuczynski. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 write by Alan P Marcus. This book was released on 2024-11-15. Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This masterful use of Inquisition records and other sources reveals the roles of Portuguese Jews in colonial Brazil and, more broadly, in networks that spanned the Atlantic from Brazil to Amsterdam, Africa, the Caribbean, New York, and other places."--Andrew Sluyter, author of Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda), but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout the Caribbean, and in North America. Drawing on nearly twenty thousand digitized dossiers of the Portuguese Inquisition, this volume offers a comprehensive, critical overview informed by both relatively inaccessible secondary sources and a significant body of primary sources.
The Marrano Factory
The Marrano Factory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marrano Factory write by António José Saraiva. This book was released on 2001. The Marrano Factory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in Portuguese in 1969, this is the only work by Antonio Jose Saraiva available in English and the only single-volume history devoted primarily to the working of the Portuguese Inquisition, a most lucid and compact survey. "The Marrano Factory" argues that the Portuguese Inquisition s stated intention of extirpating heresies and purifying Portuguese Catholicism was a monumental hoax; the true purpose of the Holy Office was the fabrication rather than the destruction of "Judaizers."
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon write by Richard Zimler. This book was released on 2000-03-15. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. International Bestseller: “A moody, tightly constructed historical thriller . . . a good mystery story and an effective evocation of a faraway time and place.” —The New York Times After Jews living in sixteenth-century Portugal are dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity, many of these New Christians persevere in their Jewish prayers and rituals in secret and at great risk; the hidden, arcane practices of the kabbalists, a mystical sect of Jews, continue as well. One such secret Jew is Berekiah Zarco, an intelligent young manuscript illuminator. Inflamed by love and revenge, he searches, in the crucible of the raging pogrom, for the killer of his beloved uncle Abraham, a renowned kabbalist, discovered murdered in a hidden synagogue along with a young girl in dishabille. Risking his life in streets seething with mayhem, Berekiah tracks down answers among Christians, New Christians, Jews, and the fellow kabbalists of his uncle, whose secret language and codes by turns light and obscure the way to the truth he seeks. A marvelous story, a challenging mystery, and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon both compels and entertains. “The story moves quickly . . . a literary and historical treat.” —Library Journal ''Remarkable . . . The fever pitch of intensity Zimler maintains is at times overwhelming but never less than appropriate to the Hieronymous Bosch-like landscape he describes. Simultaneously, though, he is able to capture, within the bedlam, quiet moments of tenderness and love.” —Booklist (starred review)
Iberian New Christians and Their Descendants
Iberian New Christians and Their Descendants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iberian New Christians and Their Descendants write by Jack Cohen. This book was released on 2019-06-20. Iberian New Christians and Their Descendants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground-breaking volume explores the relatively new academic field of Bnei Anousim studies (also referred to as descendants of New Christians, Conversos, or Marranos), whose Jewish ancestors in Iberia were forcibly converted to Catholicism from 1391 through to the fifteenth century. Chronologically, this book focuses on the eighteenth century, a later period of Inquisition activity marked by the Portuguese Inquisition’s relentless attacks against the Jewish “heresy” and the resultant mass exodus of New Christians from Portugal to Brazil. Several chapters concern the contemporary phenomenon of descendants of these New Christians seeking their Jewish roots. However, among a population that has retained almost no memory of their origins, how authentic are their Jewish roots? After the passage of hundreds of years, how much of what they perceive as “Jewish” is truly a lost Sefardi heritage? This volume addresses these questions from the perspectives of history, demography, genealogy, anthropology, and genetics.
