Secret conversions to Judaism in early modern Europe
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Secret conversions to Judaism in early modern Europe
(Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 122)
Brill, 2004
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume deals with conversions to Judaism from the 16th to the 18th century. It provides six case studies by leading international scholars on phenomena as crypto-Judaism, "judaizing", reversion of Jewish-Christian converts and secret conversions of non-Jewish Christians for intellectual reasons. With contributions by Arthur Williamson, Richard H. Popkin, Elisheva Carlebach, Allison P. Coudert, Martin Mulsow and Martha Keith Schuchard.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Martin Mulsow & Richard H. Popkin
1. George Buchanan, Crypto-Judaism, and the Critique of European Empire, Arthur Williamson
2. Can one be a True Christian and a Faithful Follower of the Law of Moses? The Answer of John Dury, Richard H. Popkin
3. "Ich will dich nach Holland schicken . . .": Amsterdam and the Reversion to Judaism of German-Jewish Converts, Elisheva Carlebach
4. Judaizing in the Seventeenth Century: Francis Mercury van Helmont and Johann Peter Spath (Moses Germanus), Allison P. Coudert
5. Cartesianism, Skepticism and Conversion to Judaism. The Case of Aaron d'Antan, Martin Mulsow
6. Lord George Gordon and Cabalistic Freemasonry: Beating Jacobite Swords into Jacobin Ploughshares, Marsha Keith Schuchard
Index of Names
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