“She Has Them Coming to Judaism”: Tradition and Jewish Affinity in Jewish Wills of Seventeenthcentury Livorno

From its inception, the Jewish community in Livorno enjoyed a unique status, encouraging former conversos to settle there. In Livorno they could live openly as Jews. Thus, it is most interesting to study their attitude to their cultural heritage, according to the wills left by several of the Sephard...

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Main Author: Melcer-Padon, Nourit 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: European journal of jewish studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 168-202
Further subjects:B Livorno Jewish Sephardi community testaments New Christians New Jews seventeenth-century Spanish language
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