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A Historian in Exile : Solomon ibn Verga, "Shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter
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ISBN: 0812293274 0812248589 Year: 2016 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Solomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his Shevet Yehudah (The Scepter of Judah, ca. 1520) numbered among the most popular Hebrew books of the sixteenth century. Its title page lured readers and buyers with a promise to relate "the terrible events and calamities that afflicted the Jews while in the lands of non-Jewish peoples": blood libels, disputations, conspiracies, evil decrees, expulsions, and more.The book itself preserves collective memories, illuminates a critical and transitional phase in Jewish history, and advances a new vision of European society and government. It reflects a world of renaissance, reformation, and global exploration but also one fraught with crisis for Christian majority and Jewish minority alike. Among the multitudes of Iberian Jewish conversos who had received Christian baptism by the end of the fifteenth century, ibn Verga experienced the destruction of Spanish-Portuguese Jewry just as the Catholic Church began to lose exclusive control over the structures of Western religious life; and he joined other Europeans in reevaluating boundaries and affiliations that shaped their identities.In A Historian in Exile, Jeremy Cohen shows how Shevet Yehudah bridges the divide between the medieval and early modern periods, reflecting a contemporary consciousness that a new order had begun to replace the old. Ibn Verga's text engages this receding past in conversation, Cohen contends; it uses historical narrative to challenge regnant assumptions, to offer new solutions to age-old problems, to call Jews to task for bringing much of the hostility toward them upon themselves, and to chart a viable direction for a people seeking a place to call home in a radically transformed world.

The expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
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ISBN: 1874774412 1904113281 1909821004 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Littman library of Jewish civilization

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The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain' is a detailed study of the events surrounding this infamous chapter in Spanish history. Based on hundreds of documents discovered, deciphered, and analyzed during decades of intensive archival research, this work focuses on the practical consequences of the expulsion both for those expelled and those remaining behind. It responds to basic questions such as: What became of property owned by Jewish individuals and communities? What became of outstanding debts between Jews and Christians? How was the edict of expulsion implemented? Who was in charge? How did they operate? What happened to those who converted to Christianity in order to remain in Spain or return to that country? The material summarized and analyzed in this study also sheds light on Jewish life in Spain preceding the expulsion. For example, Jews are shown to have been present in remote villages where they were not hitherto known to have lived, and documents detailing lawsuits between Christians related to debts left behind by Jews reveal much about business and financial relations between Jews and Christians. By focusing on the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in such detail - for example, by naming the magistrates who presided over the confiscation of Jewish communal property - Professor Beinart takes history out of the realm of abstraction and gives it concrete reality.


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After Conversion : Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity
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ISBN: 9004324321 9004324313 9789004324329 9789004324312 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill,

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This book examines the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia, where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth, and in this way it explores the fraught relationship between origins and faith. It treats also of the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and the production of knowledge, taking into account how integrating new converts from Judaism and Islam stimulated Christian scholars to confront the converts’ sacred texts and created a distinctive peninsular hermeneutics. The book thus assesses the importance of the “Converso problem” in issues such as religious dissidence, dissimulation, and doubt and skepticism while establishing the process by which religious dissidence came to be categorized as heresy and was identified with converts from Judaism and Islam even when Lutheranism was often in the background.

Boletín de la Biblioteca Menéndez y Pelayo.


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Geschiedenis en cultuur van Spanje : van steentijd tot verlichting
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ISBN: 9062839975 Year: 1995 Publisher: Bussum : Coutinho,

Visigothic Spain : new approaches
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ISBN: 0198225431 9780198225430 Year: 1980 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

La calle de Valverde
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ISBN: 843760558X 9788437605586 Year: 1985 Volume: 234 Publisher: Madrid: Cátedra,

Temas hispánicos medievales : literatura e historia
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ISBN: 8424905385 8424905377 9788424905378 9788424905385 Year: 1974 Volume: 203 Publisher: Madrid : Gredos,

Las revistas españolas entre dos dictaduras : 1931-1939
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ISBN: 8485081803 Year: 1986 Publisher: Valencia Pre-textos

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