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.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface / Yosef Kaplan -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Markers of Converso Identities -- A Crisis of Judeoconverso Identity and Its Echoes, 1391 to the Present / David Graizbord -- A Family of the Nação from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Beyond (1497-1640) / James Nelson Novoa -- Conversos versus Recusants: Shaping the Markers of Difference (1570-1680) / Natalia Muchnik -- Richelieu in Marrano Garb: Conversos as Agents of the French Confessional Model, c. 1640 / Claude B. Stuczynski -- Semi-Clandestine Judaism in Early Modern France: European Horizons and Local Varieties of a Domestic Devotion / Carsten L. Wilke -- Prison Revelations and Jailhouse Encounters: Inquisitorial Prisons as Places of Judaizing Activism and Cross-Cultural Exchange / Ronnie Perelis -- Mechanisms of Social Discipline in the Sephardic Communities -- Defining Deviance, Negotiating Norms: Raphael Meldola in Livorno, Pisa, and Bayonne / Bernard Dov Cooperman -- A Sephardic Saga in the Dutch Republic: The Cohen Pallache Women on Love, Religion, and Social Standing / Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld -- Dispute Resolution and Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah: Community Forum and Legal Acculturation in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam / Evelyne Oliel-Grausz -- The "Livro de Pleitos": The Leadership of the Spanish and Portuguese Community of London in the Eighteenth Century as a Court of Requests / Alex Kerner -- 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) / Serena Di Nepi -- The Sephardic Community and Social Practices in the Circuit of Money: Social Implications of Payment Networks in the Context of the Livorninas / Mauricio Dimant -- Charity Begins at Home: Reflections on the Dowry Society of Livorno / Nourit Melcer-Padon -- The Boundaries of Rabbinical Authority -- Jacob Sasportas and Problems of Discipline in the Ets Haim Yeshiva / Yaacob Dweck -- A Letter's Importance: The Spelling of Daka(h) (Deut. 23:2) and the Broadening of Western Sephardic Rabbinic Culture / David Sclar -- Hakham Yaakov Athias-A Portuguese Rabbi Facing the Winds of Enlightenment and Secularization / Yocheved Beeri -- Varieties of Cultural Creativity -- On the Role of Hebrew Grammars in the Western European Diaspora and the New World / Moisés Orfali -- New Jews in Amsterdam: Some Social Aspects Reflected in the Thesouro dos Dinim by Menasseh ben Israel / Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt -- Penso de la Vega and the Question of Jewish Baroque / Einat Davidi -- 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 / Michael Studemund-Halévy -- Revisiting Blackness, Slavery, and Jewishness in the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic / Jonathan Schorsch -- Feckless Fathers, Fraught Families: Abandonment and Cultural Change in the Early Modern Jewish World / Jessica Vance Roitman -- The Gabay Dynasty: Plantation Jews of the Colonial Atlantic World / Stanley Mirvis -- Patriots at the Periphery: David Nassy, the French Revolution, and the Emancipation of the Dutch Jews / Sina Rauschenbach -- Back Matter -- Index of Names and Places.