Religious changes and cultural transformations in the early modern western Sephardic communities
Bände/Inhalt:
- Front Matter --
- Copyright page --
- Preface / / Yosef Kaplan --
- Acknowledgments --
- Figures and Tables --
- Notes on Contributors --
- Markers of Converso Identities --
- A Crisis of Judeoconverso Identity and Its Echoes, 1391 to the Present / / David Graizbord --
- A Family of the Nação from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Beyond (1497-1640) / / James Nelson Novoa --
- Conversos versus Recusants: Shaping the Markers of Difference (1570-1680) / / Natalia Muchnik --
- Richelieu in Marrano Garb: Conversos as Agents of the French Confessional Model, c. 1640 / / Claude B. Stuczynski --
- Semi-Clandestine Judaism in Early Modern France: European Horizons and Local Varieties of a Domestic Devotion / / Carsten L. Wilke --
- Prison Revelations and Jailhouse Encounters: Inquisitorial Prisons as Places of Judaizing Activism and Cross-Cultural Exchange / / Ronnie Perelis --
- Mechanisms of Social Discipline in the Sephardic Communities --
- Defining Deviance, Negotiating Norms: Raphael Meldola in Livorno, Pisa, and Bayonne / / Bernard Dov Cooperman --
- A Sephardic Saga in the Dutch Republic: The Cohen Pallache Women on Love, Religion, and Social Standing / / Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld --
- Dispute Resolution and Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah: Community Forum and Legal Acculturation in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam / / Evelyne Oliel-Grausz --
- The "Livro de Pleitos”: The Leadership of the Spanish and Portuguese Community of London in the Eighteenth Century as a Court of Requests / / Alex Kerner --
- Economy and Community among Italian Sephardim --
- Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and Ghettoization: A Trial in Ancona as a Case Study (1555-1563) / / Serena Di Nepi --
- The Sephardic Community and Social Practices in the Circuit of Money: Social Implications of Payment Networks in the Context of the Livorninas / / Mauricio Dimant --
- Charity Begins at Home: Reflections on the Dowry Society of Livorno / / Nourit Melcer-Padon --
- The Boundaries of Rabbinical Authority --
- Jacob Sasportas and Problems of Discipline in the Ets Haim Yeshiva / / Yaacob Dweck --
- A Letter's Importance: The Spelling of Daka(h) (Deut. 23:2) and the Broadening of Western Sephardic Rabbinic Culture / / David Sclar --
- Hakham Yaakov Athias—A Portuguese Rabbi Facing the Winds of Enlightenment and Secularization / / Yocheved Beeri --
- Varieties of Cultural Creativity --
- On the Role of Hebrew Grammars in the Western European Diaspora and the New World / / Moisés Orfali --
- New Jews in Amsterdam: Some Social Aspects Reflected in the Thesouro dos Dinim by Menasseh ben Israel / / Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt --
- Penso de la Vega and the Question of Jewish Baroque / / Einat Davidi --
- Crossing the Atlantic—Sephardic Communities in the New World --
- Sea Is History, Sea Is Witness: The Creation of a Prosopographical Database for the Sephardic Atlantic / / Michael Studemund-Halévy --
- Revisiting Blackness, Slavery, and Jewishness in the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic / / Jonathan Schorsch --
- Feckless Fathers, Fraught Families: Abandonment and Cultural Change in the Early Modern Jewish World / / Jessica Vance Roitman --
- The Gabay Dynasty: Plantation Jews of the Colonial Atlantic World / / Stanley Mirvis --
- Patriots at the Periphery: David Nassy, the French Revolution, and the Emancipation of the Dutch Jews / / Sina Rauschenbach --
- Back Matter --
- Index of Names and Places.