Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
זמנים; רבעון להיסטוריה
Angaben zur Quelle:
41 (1992) 44-53
Keywords:
Conversion History
;
Jews History
;
Conversion in literature
;
Jews Historiography
;
Crypto-Jews
Abstract:
Describes the image of the Conversos in modern-day Jewish and Spanish historiography, in the novel by the 19th-century British Jewish writer of Converso background Grace Aguilar, "The Vale of Cedars" (1850), and in two novels for children by the Israeli writer Dorit Orgad. Jewish historians emphasize the hostility of Spanish society towards the Conversos, and consider Conversos as Jews who went astray. Spanish historians see the Conversos as Spaniards who had social and economic ties with the Jewish community, but not religious ones. Discusses the message conveyed to young Israeli readers in the two versions of Aguilar's book and in those of Orgad, which emphasize the Conversos' observance of Jewish life and their Jewish identity. Refers to other Hebrew literary works - by Asher Barash on a Jew who remained in Toledo, and recently by Yonatan Ben Nachum on a Christian priest, son of a Converso.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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