Language:
Portuguese
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Diálogos da conversão
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2005) 123-154
Keywords:
Vieira, António,
;
Manasseh ben Israel,
;
Spanish literature 17th century
;
Crypto-Jews
;
Crypto-Jews History 17th century
;
Crypto-Jews History
;
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Jews in literature
;
Crypto-Jews in literature
;
Antisemitism in literature
Abstract:
During 1580-1640, the period corresponding with the Portuguese-Spanish unification, a large corpus of antisemitic literature was produced. Relates to works by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645), who, in his book "Execración contra los judíos", attacked the Conversos as "Jews" and held them responsible for all the social and economic ills of the century. Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562-1635), in his work "El Brasil restituido", also attacked the Jews. Both writers shared a dislike for the Portuguese Conversos who came to Spain along with the unification, and who were greatly improving their social, economic, and political position in Spanish society. Another anti-Jewish writer was the poet Juan del Valle y Caviades (1645-1698), who spent most of his life in Peru. He considered the Conversos to be Jews, equating them to the Indians, and considered both as inferior to Christians. The Portuguese Jesuit Antônio Vieira (1608-1697), who resided in Brazil, was against that trend; he opposed the persecution of Conversos and Jews. He himself was interned for two years (1665-67) in the cells of the Inquisition. Vieira advocated the return to the Spanish Empire of the Jews who had been expelled. Concludes that Vieira held common views with his contemporary Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657), a Portuguese rabbi living in Amsterdam, who maintained that amongst the natives in Latin America were the ten lost tribes of Israel, and that the Jews should be allowed to live in the Empire.
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