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Innovations among Conversos and Portuguese Jews
Expressions of Jewish belief among the descendants of forcibly converted Jews in Spain – and particularly Portugal – persisted clandestinely into the eighteenth century. Under the scrutiny of the Inquisition, and in the absence of Jewish communal institutions, Jewish books, rabbinic leaders, or extensive contact with the wider Jewish world, crypto-Jewish beliefs inevitably evolved dramatically […]
Overview Overview- Innovations among Conversos and Portuguese Jews Primary sources and presentations “The Jewishness of Conversos,” Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Secondary sources Altmann, Alexander. “The Eternality of Punishment- A Theological Controversy within the Amsterdam Rabbinate in the Thirties of the Seventeenth Century,” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 40 (1972), 1-88. […]
