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Brings together key writings by one of the most distinguished and renowned Jewish historians of our time

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"In this painstakingly researched study David Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico's silver mining towns. His narrative paints a vivid portrait of their struggles to retain their identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. Most studies of 16th-century Mexican crypto-Jews have focused on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but Gitlitz looks beyond Mexico's major population center to explore how clandestine religious communities were established in the resales, the hinterland mining camps. Similarly, Gitlitz challenges traditional scholarship that has focused solely on macro issues. He combines those issues with close analysis of the complex workings of the haciendas that mined and refined silver to provide a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of secret Jews"--

Crypto-Jews --- Jews --- Silver miners --- History --- Miners --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Anusim --- Converts

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Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies. On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nation’s Jewish community officially came to a close. The expulsion of Europe’s last major Jewish community ended more than a thousand years of unparalleled prosperity, cultural vitality and intellectual productivity. Yet, the crisis of 1492 also gave rise to a dynamic and resilient diaspora society spanning East and West. After Expulsion traces the various paths of migration and resettlement of Sephardic Jews and Conversos over the course of the tumultuous sixteenth century. Pivotally, the volume argues that the exiles did not become “Sephardic Jews” overnight. Only in the second and third generation did these disparate groups coalesce and adopt a “Sephardic Jewish” identity. After Expulsion presents a new and fascinating portrait of Jewish society in transition from the medieval to the early modern period, a portrait that challenges many longstanding assumptions about the differences between Europe and the Middle East.

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L’ouvrage interroge la notion de marranisme dans une perspective large et comparatiste, au-delà du crypto-judaïsme. On retrouve en effet dans les aires civilisationnelles des trois grandes religions du Livre le même phénomène de « marranisme religieux », à savoir des familles ou des communautés manifestant en apparence la foi de leurs concitoyens, mais qui en réalité judaïsaient, christianisaient ou islamisaient en secret. Ce phénomène a existé dans le monde chrétien, avec le marranisme proprement dit – à savoir des crypto-juifs en pays catholiques – mais aussi avec les phénomènes liés au devenir de catholiques en terre protestante – comme aux Provinces-Unies – ou des îlots réformés en terre catholique romaine… Mais il a existé aussi dans le monde islamique, avec certains chrétiens orientaux, en particulier sous les Almohades, en Afrique du Nord et en Espagne (XIIe- XIIIe siècles) – jusque dans l’Empire ottoman, avec l’avatar du frankisme et du sabbataïsme que furent les Dönmeh d’origine juive. Ceci a induit des pratiques sociales et religieuses particulières, des emprunts, des syncrétismes, une culture du secret et de la dissimulation, des appartenances fluides, la naissance de sectes ou d’hérésies et, surtout, une remarquable aptitude à passer des rites et pratiques d’une religion à l’autre, et donc d’un corpus doctrinal à l’autre.

Marranos --- Marranes --- Jews --- Persecution --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- History --- Identity --- Persecutions --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Conversos --- Maranos --- New Christians (Marranos) --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Crypto-Jews --- Jewish Christians --- Conversos (Marranos) --- Anusim --- Converts --- histoire --- marranes --- nouveaux chrétiens --- crypto-juifs --- judaïsme --- religion --- History.

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This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam and were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This arms trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. The study discovers previously unknown Jewish communities and by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.

Jews --- Sephardim --- Marranos --- Conversos --- Maranos --- New Christians (Marranos) --- Crypto-Jews --- Jewish Christians --- Jews, Sephardic --- Ladinos (Spanish Jews) --- Sefardic Jews --- Sephardi Jews --- Sephardic Jews --- Jews, Portuguese --- Jews, Spanish --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Petite Coast (Senegal) --- Petit côte (Senegal) --- Petite côte (Senegal) --- Petite côte sénégalaise (Senegal) --- Ethnic relations. --- Conversos (Marranos) --- Anusim --- Converts --- Arts and Humanities