Religious changes and cultural transformations in the early modern western Sephardic communities / edited by Yosef Kaplan.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kaplan, Yosef, 1944-,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: "The twenty-four articles in this volume are based on lectures given at the conference that took place at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from November 14 through 16, 2016"--Preface.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Preface /; Acknowledgments --; Figures and Tables --; Notes on Contributors --; Markers of Converso Identities --; A Crisis of Judeoconverso Identity and Its Echoes, 1391 to the Present /; A Family of the Nação from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Beyond (1497-1640) /; Conversos versus Recusants: Shaping the Markers of Difference (1570-1680) /; Richelieu in Marrano Garb: Conversos as Agents of the French Confessional Model, c. 1640 /; Semi-Clandestine Judaism in Early Modern France: European Horizons and Local Varieties of a Domestic Devotion /; Prison Revelations and Jailhouse Encounters: Inquisitorial Prisons as Places of Judaizing Activism and Cross-Cultural Exchange /; Mechanisms of Social Discipline in the Sephardic Communities --; Defining Deviance, Negotiating Norms: Raphael Meldola in Livorno, Pisa, and Bayonne /; A Sephardic Saga in the Dutch Republic: The Cohen Pallache Women on Love, Religion, and Social Standing /; Dispute Resolution and Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah: Community Forum and Legal Acculturation in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam /; The "Livro de Pleitos": The Leadership of the Spanish and Portuguese Community of London in the Eighteenth Century as a Court of Requests /; Economy and Community among Italian Sephardim --; Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and Ghettoization: A Trial in Ancona as a Case Study (1555-1563) /; The Sephardic Community and Social Practices in the Circuit of Money: Social Implications of Payment Networks in the Context of the Livorninas /; Charity Begins at Home: Reflections on the Dowry Society of Livorno /; The Boundaries of Rabbinical Authority --; Jacob Sasportas and Problems of Discipline in the Ets Haim Yeshiva /; A Letter's Importance: The Spelling of Daka(h) (Deut. 23:2) and the Broadening of Western Sephardic Rabbinic Culture /; Hakham Yaakov Athias-A Portuguese Rabbi Facing the Winds of Enlightenment and Secularization /; Varieties of Cultural Creativity --; On the Role of Hebrew Grammars in the Western European Diaspora and the New World /; New Jews in Amsterdam: Some Social Aspects Reflected in the Thesouro dos Dinim by Menasseh ben Israel /; Penso de la Vega and the Question of Jewish Baroque /; Crossing the Atlantic-Sephardic Communities in the New World --; Sea Is History, Sea Is Witness: The Creation of a Prosopographical Database for the Sephardic Atlantic /; Revisiting Blackness, Slavery, and Jewishness in the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic /; Feckless Fathers, Fraught Families: Abandonment and Cultural Change in the Early Modern Jewish World /; The Gabay Dynasty: Plantation Jews of the Colonial Atlantic World /; Patriots at the Periphery: David Nassy, the French Revolution, and the Emancipation of the Dutch Jews /; Back Matter --; Index of Names and Places.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004392483
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Yosef Kaplan.

From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Europe. In those cities and later in London, Bordeaux, and Bayonne as well, Iberian conversos established their own Jewish communities, openly adhering to Judaism. Despite the features these communities shared with other confessional groups in exile, what set them apart was very significant. In contrast to other European confessional communities, whose religious affiliation was uninterrupted, the Western Sephardic Jews came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. In this edited volume, several experts in the field detail the religious and cultural changes that occurred in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities.