Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Sefarad
Angaben zur Quelle:
51,1 (1991) 23-50
Keywords:
Mota, Enrique da.
;
Resende, Garcia de,
;
Antisemitism
;
Crypto-Jews
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jews in literature
;
Judaism in literature
Abstract:
Examines the image of the Jew and of the Converso in the primitive Portuguese theater, up to the 16th century. Beginning with the 12th century, "arremedilho" or popular satire included a stereotype of the Jew presented with irony and hostility. Recalls the "Speculum disputationis contra hebraeos" by João de Alcobaça, marking the beginning of anti-Jewish apologetics in Portugal, and the "Cancioneiro Geral" of 1516 - full of attacks against Jewish merchants and doctors, and accusations of Judaizing against Conversos. The negative image of the Converso, caring for money and rejecting Christianity, and Christian hostility towards him are expressed in Enrique da Mota's "Farsa do Alfaiate". States that the poets of the Cancioneiro were spokesmen for the anti-Jewish trend in Portuguese courtly and intellectual circles and, contrary to general opinion, badly harmed Jewish-Christian coexistence in Portuguese society.
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