Miriam Bodian

Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation

Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how Portuguese immigrant - merchants, professionals, and intellectuals, for the most part - reasserted their Judaism, while maintaining their Iberian heritage.

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Produktdetails

• The Modern Jewish Experience
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780253213518
• ISBN-10: 0253213517
• Artikelnr.: 21854569

Autorenporträt

Miriam Bodian is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has taught at Yeshiva University and the University of Michigan and has been a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Forgin of a Community: Early Years in Amsterdam
3. The Dutch Context: Working Out a Modus Vivendi
4. Iberian Memory and Its Perpetuation
5. The Rejudaization of "the Nation"
6. Maintaining "the Nation" in Exile
Conclusion
Personalia
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index