Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) 3-21
Keywords:
Crypto-Jews History
;
Crypto-Jews Identity
;
Jews Identity
;
Sephardim History
Abstract:
Relates to the identity of Crypto-Jews from the period of the mass conversions of 1391 and onward - in Spain, and in the early modern period in the “Western Sephardic diaspora”, with a focus on the late 16th-17th centuries. Examines how both Jews and Christians viewed the status and the identity of the "Judeoconversos", and how they viewed themselves in relation to the Christian society in Iberia and to the Western European Jewish communities and the Christian communities to which a large number emigrated. Takes issue with historiographers up to the present, who tend to identify these "Judeoconversos" as Jews or Christians, rather than as a separate entity of their own, who did not identify with Western Jewry nor with Christianity. Eventually, they comprised the Sephardi world.
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