Hebrews of the Portuguese nation : conversos and community in early modern Amsterdam
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Hebrews of the Portuguese nation : conversos and community in early modern Amsterdam
（The modern Jewish experience）
Indiana University Press, c1997
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index
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Description
In the 17th century, descendants of forcibly baptised Jews (conversos) fled the Iberian Inquisitions to settle in Amsterdam, a city renowned for its commercial ties and religious tolerance. On arrival the conversos lacked clear ethnic or religious identities and had little social organisation. Yet, they formed the nucleus of what became within a generation a strongly cohesive community with a highly structured and well-developed sense of its Jewish identity. Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, Miriam Bodian reconstructs the fascinating story of how these Portuguese immigrant-merchants, professionals, and intellectuals, for the most part-reasserted their Judaism, while maintaining their Iberian heritage.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Forging of a Community: Early Years in Amsterdam 3. The Dutch Context: Working Out a Modus Vivendi 4. Iberian Memory and Its Perpetuation 5. The Rejudaisation of the Nation 6. Maintaining "the Nation" in Exile Conclusion Personalia Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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