The fracturing of Jewish identity in the early modern Jewish diaspora

Graizbord, David L.
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Title The fracturing of Jewish identity in the early modern Jewish diaspora : the case of the "conversos".
Original Library/publisher Paths to Modernity
a Tribute to Yosef Kaplan. Editors, Avriel Bar-Levav, Claude B. Stuczynski, Michael Heyd. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2018
Host Item Paths to Modernity
a Tribute to Yosef Kaplan. (2018) 85-119
Description Premodern Jewish culture was a comprehensive way of life, not a “religion” called “Judaism.” In this analysis, I endeavor to de-naturalize the idea of “Judaism” that has long been entrenched as a descriptor of Jews and of “crypto-Jewish” conversos. As I will explain, the concept of “Judaism” and all it conveyed are things that Iberian Jews adopted and their New Christian and New Jewish descendants internalized over centuries as Ibero-Christian culture encroached upon, and in the case of conversos, enveloped their lives.
Language English
National Library system number 990006136300705171
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