Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (The Modern Jewish Experience) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (The Modern Jewish Experience) Book

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how Portuguese immigrant ...Read More

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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.

  • 0253213517
  • 9780253213518
  • Miriam Bodian
  • 1 February 2000
  • Indiana University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
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