Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Mediterranean Historical Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,2 (1991) 112-137
Keywords:
Sephardim
;
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Crypto-Jews
Abstract:
States that in 16th-century Italy, following the influx of Jewish refugees from Spain, Sicily, Naples, and Portugal, a differentiation was made - and hence discrimination - between German, Italian, and Levantine Jews on the one hand and Spanish and Portuguese Jews on the other. The latter were all held as Marranos, that is apostates from Christianity, and therefore subject to prohibitions, persecutions, and accusations of Judaizing by the Inquisition. They were resented by the local population because of economic competition and suspected as Turkish spies. Their treatment by the authorities ranged from discrimination (e.g. Pope Paul IV's anti-Converso laws, the Venice ghetto) to tolerance (e.g. in Ferrara, Tuscany), enabling settlement of Sephardic Jews in Italy.
Note:
Appeared also in "Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Mediterranean World after 1492", 1992.
DOI:
10.1080/09518969108569618
URL:
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