Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos; Fasc. 2: Filologia Hebraica, Biblia y judaismo
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,2 (1990) 105-117
Keywords:
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jews in literature
;
Judaism in literature
Abstract:
The growing number of Jews who fled to relatively tolerant Portugal after the 1492 expulsion from Spain, instead of bringing economic prosperity, contributed to an increase in suffering and misery among Christians and Jews alike, and led to strong tensions and open hostility against the Jews, "messengers of evil". Trapped in Portugal after being forcibly converted, they were then hated and discriminated against as Conversos. Out of their longing for Zion and their resentment of the rejecting country, a new Jewish and Converso poetic genre developed, based on exegesis of the Psalms: the biblical exile became an allegory for the Spanish-Portuguese exile. Later on, this trend mixed with neo-platonic nostalgia for the lost "golden age" in the works of both Converso and Christian poets such as Bernardim Ribeiro, Samuel Usque, Camoens, and Jorge de Montemayor during the 16th century.
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