The Portuguese Jews of Hamburg

The Portuguese Jews of Hamburg
Author: Hugo Martins
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004685790
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The political and economic rise of this small but influential community of New Christian bankers and merchants is analysed against the backdrop of its institutional dynamics, in an overall perspective never before conceived. The political, religious, economic, legal, charitable and disciplinary history of the community is thus explored through the analysis of the richly detailed protocol books, written between 1652 and 1682. This is the intimate and fascinating journey of their everyday lives, hopes and challenges, as brought to us by their leaders.

Migrating Merchants

Migrating Merchants
Author: Jorun Poettering
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2018-12-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110472104
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What impact did the cultural origins and religious backgrounds of the merchants in the early modern period have on their business activities? How did these people manage to integrate themselves into the foreign societies within which they lived and worked? In this book Jorun Poettering examines the circumstances of the merchants who traded between Hamburg and Portugal in the seventeenth century. Her study offers new insights into the history of migration and intercultural encounter as world became more interconnected.

Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’

Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’
Author: Claude B. Stuczynski
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004364978
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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

Glikl

Glikl
Author: Glueckel (of Hameln)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2019
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781684580064
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Reluctant Cosmopolitans

Reluctant Cosmopolitans
Author: Daniel M. Swetschinski
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2000-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1909821802
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Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies Focusing on the social dimension of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life, Swetschinski paints a lively and unconventional picture of the dynamics of a remarkable Jewish community, the first traditional Jewish society to engage creatively with the non-Jewish, secular world in relative harmony. A broad, authentic, and original vision of the transition from medieval to modern Jewish history.

Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation

Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation
Author: Miriam Bodian
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1999-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253213518
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"An engaging introduction to the tortuous plight faced by exiled conversos in Amsterdam and their methods of response. Choicet; In this skillful and well-argued book Miriam Bodian explores the communal history of the Portuguese Jews . . . who settled in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century." —Sixteenth Century Journa Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, and literary works, among other sources, Miriam Bodian tells the moving story of how Portuguese "new Christian" immigrants in 17th-century Amsterdam fashioned a close and cohesive community that recreated a Jewish religious identity while retaining its Iberian heritage.

Jews and Judaism in Portugal

Jews and Judaism in Portugal
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230650715
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Chapters: Antisemitism in Portugal, Jewish Portuguese history, Judaism in Portugal, Portuguese Jews, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Baruch Spinoza, David Ricardo, Isaac D'Israeli, Marrano, Jacob Abendana, Isaac Abendana, Uriel da Costa, Goa Inquisition, Judah Leon Abravanel, Samuel Nunez, Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg, Moses Montefiore, History of the Jews in Livorno, History of the Jews in Portugal, Aaron Lopez, Pedro Nunes, Theodore Solomons, Bevis Marks Synagogue, Moses Gaster, Fernao de Noronha, Limpieza de sangre, Philip Guedalla, Sabato Morais, Portuguese Inquisition, Amato Lusitano, Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands, Grace Aguilar, Touro Synagogue, Joseph Nasi, Frank Nabarro, Francis Salvador, Auto-da-fe, Antonio Jose da Silva, Bendigamos, Abraham Zacuto, Congregation Shearith Israel, Daniela Ruah, Francisco Sanches, Artur Carlos de Barros Basto, Abraham de Sola, David de Sola Pool, Jacob Lumbrozo, Alex Kramer, List of Iberian Jews, Moses Angel, Gracia Mendes Nasi, John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon, Jessurun Cardozo, Moses Hagiz, Aron Mendes Chumaceiro, Portugees-Israelitisch Kerkgenootschap, Robert Henriques, Solomon Molcho, Judaeo-Portuguese, Abraham Israel Pereyra, Richard Zimler, David de Aaron de Sola, Beth Sadeh Synagogue, Isaac Cardoso, Portuguese Synagogue, Cruse family, Belmonte Municipality, Vaez, Antonio Fernandez Carvajal, Ferrara Bible, David Nieto, Henry Pereira Mendes, Antonio Goncalves de Bandarra, Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, David Mocatta, Gershom Mendes Seixas, Antonio Raposo Tavares, Bento Teixeira, Lewis Goldsmith, New Christian, Anton de Vieira, Tony Bullimore, Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, Basil Henriques, Abraham Cohen de Herrera, Edward Brampton, David Cohen Nassy, Abraham Pereira Mendes, Henriette Herz, Frederick de Sola...

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Author: Edward Kritzler
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0767919521
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In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took to the seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. Filled with high-sea adventures–including encounters with Captain Morgan and other legendary pirates–Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean reveals a hidden chapter in Jewish history as well as the cruelty, terror, and greed that flourished during the Age of Discovery.

Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities

Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
Author: Yosef Kaplan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004392483
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From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Europe. In those cities and later in London, Bordeaux, and Bayonne as well, Iberian conversos established their own Jewish communities, openly adhering to Judaism. Despite the features these communities shared with other confessional groups in exile, what set them apart was very significant. In contrast to other European confessional communities, whose religious affiliation was uninterrupted, the Western Sephardic Jews came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. In this edited volume, several experts in the field detail the religious and cultural changes that occurred in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities. "Highly recommended for all academic and Jewish libraries." - David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, in: Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)