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In Iberia and Beyond

Autor: Bernard Dov Cooperman

Número de Páginas: 420

"This collection of articles is an attempt to get at the complexities of Sephardic history by bringing together scholars who approach the topic from quite different points of view and quite different methodologies. It includes twelve essays selected from those presented at a conference at the University of Maryland to mark the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of Jews from Spain." "The papers range chronologically from the eleventh to seventeenth centuries, and geographically from Spain to Italy and the Low Countries."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dissident Rabbi

Autor: Yaacob Dweck

Número de Páginas: 498

A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certainty In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was at hand. As Jews everywhere rejected the traditional laws of Judaism in favor of new norms established by Sabbetai Zevi, and abandoned reason for the ecstasy of messianic enthusiasm, one man watched in horror. Dissident Rabbi tells the story of Jacob Sasportas, the Sephardic rabbi who alone challenged Sabbetai Zevi's improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers. Yaacob Dweck's absorbing and richly detailed biography brings to life the tumultuous century in which Sasportas lived, an age torn apart by war, migration, and famine. He describes the messianic frenzy that gripped the Jewish Diaspora, and Sasportas's attempts to make sense of a world that Sabbetai Zevi claimed was ending. As Jews danced in the streets, Sasportas compiled The Fading Flower of the Zevi, a meticulous and eloquent record of Sabbatianism as it happened. In 1666, barely a...

Être juif à Amsterdam au temps de Spinoza

Autor: Henry Méchoulan

Número de Páginas: 117

Quand Amsterdam se libère du joug espagnol à la fin du XVIe siècle, la ville ne compte aucun juif. Cinquante ans plus tard, elle abrite la plus florissante communauté juive du monde et voit naître Spinoza. Comment des juifs du secret, pratiquant un catholicisme de façade depuis 1492 dans la péninsule Ibérique, ont-ils pu réussir à construire la Jérusalem du Nord, vitrine du judaïsme occidental, et contribuer à l'aventure économique d'Amsterdam ? Cet ouvrage retrace le destin d'une communauté née de la rencontre entre l'éternelle espérance juive et l'exceptionnelle tolérance hollandaise.

The Dutch Intersection

Autor: Yosef Kaplan

Número de Páginas: 540

This collection of historical studies deals with the multiple connections between the history and culture of the Jews of the Netherlands from the beginning of the seventeenth century until the period after the Holocaust, and phenomena and processes that distinguish the history of the Jewish people in the modern period. The Jews of the Netherlands were not only nourished by the cultural creativity of the great Sephardi and Ashkenazi centers, East and West, but also at various stages they served as a source of inspiration for Jews elsewhere in the Jewish Diaspora. The articles of this volume examin the influence of general Jewish history on that of the Jews of the Netherlands and focus on events and processes that highlight the significance of of Dutch Jewry for modern Jewish culture.

Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century

Autor: Yda Schreuder

Número de Páginas: 297

This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portuguese Nation,” conducting trade from the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil. Examining the “Myth of the Dutch,” the “Sephardic Moment,” and the impact of the British Navigation Acts, Yda Schreuder focuses attention on Barbados and Jamaica and demonstrates how Amsterdam remained Europe’s primary sugar refining center through most of the seventeenth century and how Sephardic merchants played a significant role in sustaining the sugar trade.

An Alternative Path to Modernity

Autor: Yosef Kaplan

Número de Páginas: 324

The essays in this volume deal with the social and intellectual history of the Western Spanish and Portuguese Jews who established new communities in Northwestern Europe during the seventeenth century. The founders of these communities were mainly former Marranos, descendants of those Jews who had converted to Christianity in the closing years of the Middle Ages. After being separated from the Jewish world for many generations, they returned to Judaism and became an integral part of the Sephardi nation. Amsterdam became the metropolis of this new Jewish diaspora, which was characterised by both its involvement in colonial trade and its intellectual ferment. The reencounter of these Jews with Judaism was a complex affair, and for many of these former New Christians rabbinic Judaism aroused harsh criticism. In order to set the boundaries of their new identity, the leadership of the Sephardi communities of Amsterdam, Hamburg and London adopted a variety of strategies designed to rein in these wayward spirits. This process of socialisation into the Jewish world created a new type of Judaism, and those whose Jewish life was framed by this new amalgam can be considered the precursors of ...

Qui a tué Spinoza ?

Autor: Jean-françois Bensahel

Número de Páginas: 197

Et si derrière la mort de Spinoza se cachait, non une santé fragile, mais un assassinat ? Quand Baruch Spinoza s’éteint à seulement 44 ans, en 1677, à La Haye, il laisse dernière lui une œuvre philosophique révolutionnaire mais aussi des énigmes. Qui est cette mystérieuse personne qui lui a rendu visite le jour de sa mort ? Et pourquoi des lettres et des manuscrits inédits ont-ils disparu de son secrétaire ? A qui donc profite le crime de cette mort étrange ? Catholiques, protestants, monarchistes, juifs, adversaires théoriques, Français, Hollandais... de son vivant, le philosophe ne manquait pas d’ennemis. Nous voici plongés dans la Hollande du XVIIe siècle, carrefour de tous les savoirs et du commerce, terre de paix et de tolérance où Juifs, catholiques et protestants pratiquent librement leur culte. Mais l’équilibre est fragile et les passions nombreuses. On se méfie de Spinoza, trop libre, inclassable. Sa philosophie dérange autant qu’elle fascine, en cette époque où les guerres de religion déchirent l’Europe : Dieu n’est pas une personne mais la Nature. Il n’y a ni providence, ni miracles, ni paradis, ni enfer, ni immortalité de...

RAÍCES: LOS PRERA SIERRRA DE COBÁN

Autor: Arroyave Prera, Carlos JosÉ

Número de Páginas: 228

El autor presenta los resultados de la investigación sobre sus raíces, partiendo desde su abuelo materno a través de antiguos documentos del registro civil y eclesiástico e intenta entrelazar los acontecimientos históricos de Guatemala y Portugal para encontrar los posibles motivos que llevaron al patriarca de la familia Prera, don Antonio Silveira de Mattos, emigrar desde la remota isla de Fayal, en las Azores, hasta la lejana ciudad de Salamá, en Guatemala, alrededor de 1840. Asimismo, presenta una teoría sobre los verdaderos orígenes del patriarca. Por otro lado, la obra plasma los sorprendentes descubrimientos en las diferentes ramas del árbol genealógico y sobre algunos ancestros directos de la familia, principalmente, en lo que se refiere a sus orígenes étnicos y socioeconómicos, que reflejan la realidad de la historia del mestizaje en la sociedad guatemalteca.

An Alternative Path to Modernity

Autor: Yôsēf Qaplan

Número de Páginas: 336

The essays in this book depict the social and intellectual ferment of the former "Marranos" from Spain and Portugal who returned to the fold of Judaism in Western Europe during the seventeenth century and established new Jewish communities in Amsterdam, Hamburg and London.

Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam

Autor: Anne O. Albert

Número de Páginas: 400

Finalist for Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought 2023. This book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile, and community that emerged at a key moment in Jewish history and left a lasting mark on Jewish ideas. In the shadow of their former member Baruch Spinoza’s notoriety, and amid the aftermath of the Sabbatian messianic movement, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam underwent a conceptual shift that led them to treat their self-governed diaspora community as a commonwealth. Preoccupied by the question of why and how Jews should rule themselves in the absence of a biblical or messianic sovereign state or king, they forged a creative synthesis of insights from early modern Christian politics and Jewish law and traditions to assess and argue over their formidable communal government. In so doing they shaped a proud new theopolitical self-understanding of their community as analogous to a Christian state. Through readings of rarely studied sermons, commentaries, polemics, administrative records, and architecture, Anne Albert shows that a concentrated period of public Jewish political discourse among the...

The Mishnaic Moment

Autor: Piet Van Boxel , Kirsten Macfarlane , Joanna Weinberg

Número de Páginas: 428

The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both communities were printing, producing, and discussing commentaries on the canonical corpus of Jewish Law, the Mishnah.

Reluctant Cosmopolitans

Autor: Daniel M. Swetschinski

Número de Páginas: 395

Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies Focusing on the social dimension of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life, Swetschinski paints a lively and unconventional picture of the dynamics of a remarkable Jewish community, the first traditional Jewish society to engage creatively with the non-Jewish, secular world in relative harmony. A broad, authentic, and original vision of the transition from medieval to modern Jewish history.

Hebrew and Judaic Manuscripts in Amsterdam Public Collections

Autor: L. Fuks , R.g. Fuks-mansfeld

Número de Páginas: 317

Judaism for Christians

Autor: Sina Rauschenbach

Número de Páginas: 277

Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor for Christian scholars interested in Hebrew studies and negotiated with Oliver Cromwell and Parliament the return of the Jews to England. Born to a family of former conversos, Menasseh was versed in Christian theology and astutely used this knowledge to adapt the content and tone of his publications to the interests and needs of his Christian readers. Judaism for Christians: Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) is the first extensive study to systematically focus on key titles in Menasseh’s Latin works and discuss the success and failure of his strategies of translation in the larger context of early modern Christian Hebraism. Rauschenbach also examines the mistranslation of his books by Christian scholars, who were not yet ready to share Menasseh’s vision of an Abrahamic theology and of a republic of letters whose members were not divided by denomination. Ultimately, Menasseh’s plans to use Jewish knowledge as an entrée billet for Jews into Christian societies proved to be illusory, as Christian readers understood him...

Spinoza et son cercle

Autor: Koenraad Oege Meinsma

Número de Páginas: 418

Spinoza n'est pas un penseur solitaire. Il est difficile de comprendre son oeuvre sans la replacer dans l'arriere-fond historique, les interrogations et les controverses de la Hollande du XVIIe siecle. L'etude de Meisma fait revivre tous les personnages qui entourerent le philosophe: Van den Enden, son professeur de latin, execute par Louis XIV pour avoir voulu instaurer la republique en France; ses amis collegiants Louis Meyer et Jarig Jelles; Koerbagh, mort en prison pour avoir defendu le spinozisme. On decouvre avec Meisma la multiplicites des sectes religieuses qui debattent des problemes fondamentaux: interpretation de l'Ecriture, immortalite de l'ame, libre arbitre, liberte de conscience. Grace a cette biographie intellectuelle, de nombreuses allusions de la correspondance s'eclairent, l'Ethique et les Traites prennent un nouveau sens, charge de references aux evenements et aux debats contemporains. Le travail exceptionel de Meisma n'avait jamais ete traduit en francais. Le voici desormais disponible, enrichi de plus de cent pages de notes, par une equipe de specialistes qui font, sur chaque probleme et chaque personnage, le point des recherches les plus recentes.

Judaism and Enlightenment

Autor: Adam Sutcliffe

Número de Páginas: 350

This study investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in the intellectual life of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. Adam Sutcliffe shows how the widespread and enthusiastic fascination with Judaism prevalent around 1650 was largely eclipsed a century later by attitudes of dismissal and disdain. He argues that Judaism was uniquely difficult for Enlightenment thinkers to account for, and that their intense responses, both negative and positive, to Jewish topics are central to an understanding of the underlying ambiguities of the Enlightenment itself. Judaism and the Jews were a limit case, a destabilising challenge, and a constant test for Enlightenment rationalism. Erudite and highly broad-ranging in its sources, and yet extremely accessible in its argument, Judaism and Enlightenment is a major contribution to the history of European ideas, of interest to scholars of Jewish history and to those working on the Enlightenment, toleration and the emergence of modernity itself.

Reappraising the History of the Jews in the Netherlands

Autor: Hans Blom , David J. Wertheim , Hetty Berg , Bart T. Wallet

Número de Páginas: 625

The two decades since the last authoritative general history of Dutch Jews was published have seen such substantial developments in historical understanding that new assessment has become an imperative. This volume offers an indispensable survey from a contemporary viewpoint that reflects the new preoccupations of European historiography and allows the history of Dutch Jewry to be more integrated with that of other European Jewish histories. Historians from both older and newer generations shed significant light on all eras, providing fresh detail that reflects changed emphases and perspectives. In addition to such traditional subjects as the Jewish community’s relationship with the wider society and its internal structure, its leaders, and its international affiliations, new topics explored include the socio-economic aspects of Dutch Jewish life seen in the context of the integration of minorities more widely; a reassessment of the Holocaust years and consideration of the place of Holocaust memorialization in community life; and the impact of multiculturalist currents on Jews and Jewish politics. Memory studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and digital humanities all ...

Diasporas within a Diaspora

Autor: Jonathan Israel

Número de Páginas: 624

This volume is concerned with the religious, social and commercial 'networking' methods extending over a large part of the world, ranging from the Near East to South America, used by the western Sephardic Jewish diaspora - and the linked 'New Christian' diaspora (in lands where the Inquisition prevailed)- from the mid sixteenth to the mid eighteenth century. Particular attention is given to the role of these unique diasporas in the functioning of the six great European world maritime empires of the time - the Venetian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French. New material and argument is offered relating to the questions of diaspora formation, Sephardic social practices, crypto-Judaism, religious syncretism, cross-cultural brokerage, and the contribution of diasporas to European expansion.

Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’

Autor: Claude B. Stuczynski , Bruno Feitler

Número de Páginas: 518

In Portuguese Jews, New Christians and ‘New Jews’ Claude B. Stuczynski and Bruno Feitler gather some of the leading scholars of the history of the Portuguese Jews and conversos in a tribute to their common friend and a renowned figure in Luso-Judaica, Roberto Bachmann, on the occasion of his 85th birthday. The texts are divided into five sections dealing with medieval Portuguese Jewish culture, the impact of the inquisitorial persecution, the wide range of converso identities on one side, and of the Sephardi Western Portuguese Jewish communities on the other, and the role of Portugal and Brazil as lands of refuge for Jews during the Second World War. This book is introduced by a comprehensive survey on the historiography on Portuguese Jews, New Christians and 'New Jews' and offers a contribution to Luso-Judaica studies

Conocimiento expropiado

Autor: Fernando Broncano

Número de Páginas: 373

«En estos tiempos en que todo lo que somos lo medimos y lo vemos como capital, disputar el concepto de conocimiento es disputar la vida misma.» Las formas más invisibles de injusticia tienen que ver con lo intangible, con el dominio sobre la información y el conocimiento. Modos de opresión y de exclusión que la política no suele considerar porque se ha construido sobre la mentira de que la verdad no cuenta, solo cuenta lo que se cree que es verdad: solo la manipulación de las opiniones. Se oculta cuidadosamente que tener el poder sobre aquello que se sabe, y sobre aquello que se ignora, es también una forma lacerante de desigualdad. El neoliberalismo es también una forma estratégica de ignorancia, de injusticia y de silenciamiento. Contra la ceguera, este libro afirma lo contrario: toda política es política epistemológica y toda epistemología es epistemología política. La democracia es, también, un proyecto de libertad, igualdad y fraternidad epistémicas.

Tratado teológico-político

Autor: Baruch Spinoza

Número de Páginas: 340

Publicado en los primeros meses de 1670 de forma anónima y con falso pie de imprenta, el Tratado teológico-político ocupa un puesto privilegiado no solo en el sistema de spinoza (1632-1677), sino que supone «una auténtica revolución intelectual» en un momento crucial de la historia, entre la reforma religiosa, que había conducido a la Paz de Westfalia, y las ya incoadas revoluciones políticas que desembocarían en el estado laico. Dos nociones corren paralelas a lo largo de toda esta obra, que fue perseguida y prohibida por iglesias y sectas: «Por un lado, la necesidad de libertad de pensamiento, la cual solo tiene cabida en un Estado democrático; por otro, la idea del estado como poder supremo, único garante de la unidad y la seguridad y, en definitiva, del pacto social que lo constituye».

Isaac Orobio

Autor: Carsten Wilke

Número de Páginas: 159

The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially in religions, perhaps most notably in Judaism. In such cultural contexts scepticism manifests as a critical attitude towards different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and towards religious and political authorities. It is not merely an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but a critical form of life that expresses itself in such diverse phenomena as religion, literature, and society. Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion and the Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advances Studies.

Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Communities in Exile

Autor: Yosef Kaplan

Número de Páginas: 398

In the Early Modern period, the religious refugee became a constant presence in the European landscape, a presence which was felt, in the wake of processes of globalization, on other continents as well. During the religious wars, which raged in Europe at the time of the Reformation, and as a result of the persecution of religious minorities, hundreds of thousands of men and women were forced to go into exile and to restore their lives in new settings. In this collection of articles, an international group of historians focus on several of the significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The contributions here discuss a broad range of topics, including the ways in which these communities of belief retained their identity in foreign climes, the religious meaning they accorded to the experience of exile, and the connection between ethnic attachment and religious belief, among others.

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500–1815

Autor: Jonathan Karp , Adam Sutcliffe

Número de Páginas: 1154

This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, covering Jews in the Islamic world and in the Americas, as well as in Europe, with many chapters straddling the conventional lines of division between Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Mizrahi history. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative work in this field currently available, this volume will serve as an essential reference tool and ideal point of entry for advanced students and scholars of early modern Jewish history.

Espejo de la Vanida del Mundo

Autor: Abraham Pereira

Número de Páginas: 726

Tratado de Moral e Ética (Mussar) de Abraham Israel Pereira. O autor, um exemplo de cristao-novo retornado ao judaismo, fugindo da inquisicao espanhola, emigrou à Amsterdam, onde tornou-se grande filantropo, filósofo e escritor.

Biblioteca española. Su autor d. Joseph Rodriguez de Castro. Tomo primero [-segundo]

Autor: José Rodriguez : De Castro

Número de Páginas: 886

La noticia de los escritores rabinos españoles desde la epoca conocida de su literatura hasta el presente

Autor: José Rodríguez De Castro

Número de Páginas: 876

Biblioteca española, que contiene la noticia de los escritores rabinos españoles desde la epoca conocida de su literatura hasta el presente

Autor: Joseph Rodríguez De Castro

Número de Páginas: 884

Jewish Books and their Readers

Autor: Scott Mandelbrote , Joanna Weinberg

Número de Páginas: 394

Jewish Books and their Readers discusses the transformative effect of the circulation and readership of sacred and secular texts written by Jews on Christian as well as Jewish readers in early modern Europe. Its twelve essays challenge traditional paradigms of Christian Hebraism and undermine simplistic visions of the unchanging nature of Jewish cultural life.They ask what constituted a ‘Jewish’ book: how it was presented, disseminated, and understood within both Jewish and Christian environments (and how its meanings were contested), and what effect such understanding had on contemporary views of Jews and their intellectual heritage. They demonstrate how the involvement of Christians in the production and dissemination of Jewish books played a role in the shaping of the intellectual life of Jews and Christians. Contributors are: Michela Andreatta, Andrew Berns, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Federica Francesconi, Anthony Grafton Alessandro Guetta, William Horbury, Yosef Kaplan, Scott Mandelbrote, Piet van Boxel, Joanna Weinberg Benjamin Williams.

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