Bastards and Believers : : Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present / / ed. by Paweł Maciejko, Theodor Dunkelgrün.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Albert, Anne Oravetz,; Andreatta, Michela,; Castaño, Javier,; Dunkelgrün, Theodor,; Fisher, Netanel,; Gracombe, Sarah,; Horowitz, Elliott,; Jacobs, Andrew S.,; Japhet, Sara,; Kanarfogel, Ephraim,; Maciejko, Paweł,; Schainker, Ellie,; Stuczynski, Claude B.,; Tartakoff, Paola,
• HerausgeberIn: Dunkelgrün, Theodor,; Maciejko, Paweł,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 1 illus.

A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish historyTheodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous. It can refer to Jews who turn to religions other than Judaism and non-Jews who tie their fates to that...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Term Ger and the Concept of Conversion in the Hebrew Bible
• Chapter 2. Ex- Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other
• Chapter 3. Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France
• Chapter 4. Of Purity, Piety, and Plunder: Jewish Apostates and Poverty in Medieval Eu rope
• Chapter 5. “Cleanse Me from My Sin”: The Social and Cultural Vicissitudes of a Converso Family in Fifteenth- Century Castile
• Chapter 6. Converso Paulinism and Residual Jewishness: Conversion from Judaism to Chris tianity as a Theologico- political Problem
• Chapter 7. Return by Any Other Name: Religious Change Among Amsterdam’s New Jews
• Chapter 8. The Persuasive Path: Giulio Morosini’s Derekh Emunah as a Conversion Narrative
• Chapter 9. “Precious Books”: Conversion, Nationality, and the Novel, 1810–2010
• Chapter 10. Between European Judaism and British Protestantism in the Early Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 11. When Life Imitates Art: Shtetl Sociability and Conversion in Imperial Russia
• Chapter 12. Opposition, Integration, and Ambiguity: Toward a History of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s Policies on Conversion to Judaism
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index