“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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2018
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European journal of jewish studies
Année: 2018, Volume: 12, Numéro: 2, Pages: 168-202 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Livorno
Jewish Sephardi community
testaments
New Christians
New Jews
seventeenth-century Spanish language
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| Résumé: | 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 Sephardi community’s prominent members. A linguistic analysis of phrases used by three testators is particularly revealing in assessing their positions regarding Judaism. Their words reflect anxiety and determination: a realization of hardships encountered by New Christians on their way to Judaism, and a further realization that only few will adhere to it. |
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| ISSN: | 1872-471X |
| Contient: | In: European journal of jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-11221042 |