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Walenty Potocki was a young Polish nobleman who abandoned wealth, power, and unlimited worldly prospects to convert to new religion - Judaism. Potocki was betrayed by a member of the religious community he embraced and burned at the stake by the Church he left behind in 1749. This book examines eleven versions of this remarkable man’s story and the heated, previously unpublished, correspondence between the Potocki clan and one of his early biographers. Noble Soul is the record of one man’s defining faith, and of the compelling human need for personal spiritual fulfillment.

Jewish converts from Christianity --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Jewish martyrs --- Potocki, Valentine, --- Death and burial. --- Vilnius (Lithuania)

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Jews --- Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish --- Persecution --- Juifs --- Biography --- Converts from christianity --- Biographie --- Blau, Ruth --- Jewish converts from Christianity --- Orthodox Judaism --- Shuhmakher, Yosel'eh --- Orthodox Judaism - Israel

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"This book covers conversion from Christianity to Judaism and from Judaism to Christianity, but primarily the latter. It also addresses the question of whether Jewish converts to Christianity ever lose their Jewishness"--

Christian converts from Judaism. --- Jews --- Jewish converts from Christianity. --- Jewish Christians. --- Conversion --- Conversion --- Juifs convertis au christianisme --- Juifs --- Chrétiens convertis au judaïsme --- Chrétiens juifs --- Conversion --- Conversion --- Conversion to Christianity. --- Christianity --- History. --- Judaism --- History. --- Conversion au christianisme --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Judaïsme --- Histoire

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In 1322, a Jewish doctor named Abner entered a synagogue in the Castilian city of Burgos and began to weep in prayer. Falling asleep, he dreamed of a "great man" who urged him to awaken from his slumber. Shortly thereafter, he converted to Christianity and wrote a number of works attacking his old faith. Abner tells the story in fantastic detail in the opening to his Hebrew-language but anti-Jewish polemical treatise, Teacher of Righteousness.In the religiously plural context of the medieval Western Mediterranean, religious conversion played an important role as a marker of social boundaries and individual identity. The writers of medieval religious polemics such as Teacher of Righteousness often began by giving a brief, first-person account of the rejection of their old faith and their embrace of the new. In such accounts, Ryan Szpiech argues, the narrative form plays an important role in dramatizing the transition from infidelity to faith.Szpiech draws on a wide body of sources from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the place of narrative in the representation of conversion. Making a firm distinction between stories told about conversion and the experience of religious change, his book is not a history of conversion itself but a comparative study of how and why it was presented in narrative form within the context of religious disputation. He argues that between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, conversion narratives were needed to represent communal notions of history and authority in allegorical, dramatic terms. After considering the late antique paradigms on which medieval Christian conversion narratives were based, Szpiech juxtaposes Christian stories with contemporary accounts of conversion to Islam and Judaism. He emphasizes that polemical conflict between Abrahamic religions in the medieval Mediterranean centered on competing visions of history and salvation. By seeing conversion not as an individual experience but as a public narrative, Conversion and Narrative provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on medieval writing about religious disputes.

Apologetics --- Conversion --- Religious biography --- Identification (Religion) --- Christian converts from Judaism --- Jewish converts from Christianity --- Muslim converts from Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Islam --- History --- Christianity --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Judaism. --- Islam. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies.