Portuguese Jews, new Christians, and 'new Jews' : : a tribute to Roberto Bachmann / / edited by Claude B. Stuczynski and Bruno Feitler.

• Superior document: Iberian Religious World, Volume 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Sṭuts'insḳi, Dov,; Feitler, Bruno,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Iberian religious world ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (518 pages).

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

Table of Contents

A Portuguese-Jewish exception? A historiographical introduction / Bruno Feitler and Claude B. Stuczynski -- Medieval Hebrew-Portuguese texts in Aljamia / Meritxell Blasco Orellana and Jose Ramon Magdalena Nom de Deu -- Don Isaac Abravanel and the capture of Arzila in August 1471 : expansion, communal leadership and cultural networks / Cedric Cohen Skalli -- New sources in Portuguese Aljamiado : a collection of letters concerning the commercial activities of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman empire and Italy during the mid-sixteenth century / Dov Cohen -- The orphans' portion and the Jews of Miranda do Douro in 1490 / Javier Castano -- Baptized or not? The inquisitors' dilemma in trials of Portuguese Jews from Dutch Brazil, 1645-1647 / Miriam Bodian -- A little-known gibe at the inquisition by Father Antonio Vieira (1608-1697) / translation and annotation by Herman Prins Salomon -- The last Marranos in Venice / Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini -- Conrad Gessner edits Brudus Lusitanus : the trials and tribulations of publishing a sixteenth century treatise on dietetics / Antonio Manuel Lopes Andrade -- Economic know-how and arbitrism in 1600 : the memoriales of Pedro de Baeca / Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano -- Antonio and Francisco Vaz Pinto : Portuguese new Christian homens da nacao in the court of Rome / James W. Nelson Novoa -- Two biographies of converted Jews in contrast Joao Baptista d'Este and Antonio Garcia Soldani / Jose Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim -- The ark on stage : a Calderonian allegory and its crypto-Judaic transformation by Antonio Enriquez Gomez / Carsten L. Wilke -- La Machabea and the first Portuguese of the northern Netherlands / Harm den Boer -- Paraphrastic commentary to the Pentateuch by Isaac Aboab da Fonseca / Moises Orfali -- D'holbach and the Dissertation sur le Messie : some enigmas, and a new source / Myriam Silvera -- The abduction of a girl in order to marry her and other clandestine marriages in the Sephardic community of London in the early eighteenth century / Yosef Kaplan -- A treasured trove : Sefardic manuscripts and books from Altona and Hamburg / Michael Studemund-Halevy -- Portugal and the holocaust / Irene Flunser Pimentel -- The "new state" regimes of Brazil and Portugal and their diplomats regarding the persecution of Jews during the holocaust : a comparative analysis / Avraham Milgram.