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Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam

Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam

Bodian, Miriam

Paperback

Series: Modern Jewish Experience

General European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0253213517
ISBN13: 9780253213518
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jul 22 1999
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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