Language:
Dutch
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Ter Herkenning; tijdschrift voor Christenen en Joden
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,4 (1991) 243-253
Keywords:
Kinot Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Hebrew literature, Medieval History and criticism
Abstract:
Analyzes medieval Spanish lamentations which express bitter complaints and protests of Spanish Jews against their persecution during the late 14th-early 15th centuries. Outlines the reasons for these literary outbursts: the pogroms instigated by the archbishop of Seville, Ferrant Martinez, in 1391, which spread throughout Spain. Many Jews were killed or forced to convert to Christianity. In 1412, again, thousands of Jews were forced to convert, and others fled to Portugal.
Note:
An English version appeared as "Oh Seville! Ah Castile! Spanish Hebrew dirges from the fifteenth century" in "Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World" (2001) 156-170.
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