By Martin Mulsow, Richard H. Popkin
This quantity bargains with conversions to Judaism from the sixteenth to the 18th century. It presents six case stories through best overseas students on phenomena as crypto-Judaism, ''judaizing,'' reversion of Jewish-Christian converts and mystery conversion of non-Jewish Christians for highbrow purposes. the 1st contributions study George Buchanan and John Dury, via 3 reviews of the milieu of past due seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The final essay is worried with Lord George Gordon and Cabbalistic Freemasonry. The contributions might be of curiosity for highbrow historians, but in addition historians of political inspiration or Jewish stories. individuals contain: Elisheva Carlebach, Allison P. Coudert, Martin Mulsow, Richard H. Popkin, Marsha Keith Schuchard, and Arthur Williamson
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The sixteenth-century collèges had subversive reputations just about everywhere in France, and to a considerable extent the suspicions about Guyenne were well-founded. The sudden forced conversion of Portugal’s Jewish community in 1497—it required only one cup of water—effectively guaranteed that, unlike in Spain, hidden Judaism (marranism) and residual Judaism would persist in many areas. The principal, André de Gouvea, hailed from Beja, long a center for marranism, and his family most likely had come to France in the wake of the 1506 pogroms.
When he was quieted the members told him he could come home with them after the service and discuss it. 34 A few months later he left the Netherlands on a journey to convert the pope and the sultan. En route he apparently lived in Jewish communities in Germany and Italy. Letter from Fisher describe him spending weeks in the Jewish community in Livorno and both he and the other people there being happy with his presence. His internal Judaism must have seemed convincing for them to let him stay, since they were not allowed to have outsiders stay in the ghetto.
Branner (New York, 1972); Théophile Malvezin, Histoire des Juifs à Bordeaux (Bordeaux, 1875/1976), pp. 88–145; Henry Léon, Histoire des Juifs de Bayonne (Paris, 1893), pp. D. McFarlane, Buchanan (London, 1981), pp. H. H. Popkin et al. ), Jewish Christians and Christian Jews in Early Modern Europe (Dordrecht/Boston, 1994), pp. 97–117. I. Israel, European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550–1750 (Oxford, 1989), p. xiv. MULSOW_f3-18-32 10/21/03 5:54 PM Page 27 , -, 27 as some modern critics have observed—it concerns judging language and appearances.
