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Author : Cecil Roth
Release : 1959
Genre : Crypto-Jews
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Book Synopsis A History of the Marranos by : Cecil Roth
Download or read book A History of the Marranos written by Cecil Roth. This book was released on 1959. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An account of the origins and fate of those Spanish Jews who -- terrorized by the massacre of 1391 and the Inquisition -- professed Christianity to escape persecution."--cover.
Author : Yirmiyahu Yovel
Release : 2018-06-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Other Within by : Yirmiyahu Yovel
Download or read book The Other Within written by Yirmiyahu Yovel. This book was released on 2018-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these "Conversos" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their fascinating story and reflects on what it means for modern forms of identity. He describes the Marranos as "the Other within"—people who both did and did not belong. Rejected by most Jews as renegades and by most veteran Christians as Jews with impure blood, Marranos had no definite, integral identity, Yovel argues. The "Judaizers"—Marranos who wished to remain secretly Jewish—were not actually Jews, and those Marranos who wished to assimilate were not truly integrated as Hispano-Catholics. Rather, mixing Jewish and Christian symbols and life patterns, Marranos were typically distinguished by a split identity. They also discovered the subjective mind, engaged in social and religious dissent, and demonstrated early signs of secularity and this-worldliness. In these ways, Yovel says, the Marranos anticipated and possibly helped create many central features of modern Western and Jewish experience. One of Yovel's philosophical conclusions is that split identity—which the Inquisition persecuted and modern nationalism considers illicit—is a genuine and inevitable shape of human existence, one that deserves recognition as a basic human freedom. Drawing on historical studies, Inquisition records, and contemporary poems, novels, treatises, and other writings, this engaging critical history of the Marrano experience is also a profound meditation on dual identities and the birth of modernity.
Author : Cecil Roth
Release : 1975
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A History of the Marranos by : Cecil Roth
Download or read book A History of the Marranos written by Cecil Roth. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : António José Saraiva
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Marrano Factory by : António José Saraiva
Download or read book The Marrano Factory written by António José Saraiva. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Portuguese in 1969, this is the only work by Antonio Jose Saraiva available in English and the only single-volume history devoted primarily to the working of the Portuguese Inquisition, a most lucid and compact survey. "The Marrano Factory" argues that the Portuguese Inquisition s stated intention of extirpating heresies and purifying Portuguese Catholicism was a monumental hoax; the true purpose of the Holy Office was the fabrication rather than the destruction of "Judaizers."
Author : Donatella Di Cesare
Release : 2020-08-31
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Marranos by : Donatella Di Cesare
Download or read book Marranos written by Donatella Di Cesare. This book was released on 2020-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marranos were Spanish or Portuguese Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who converted to Christianity to avoid being massacred or forced to flee following the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain in 1391 but they continued to practice Judaism in secret. They outwardly embraced Catholicism but preserved Judaism in their hearts. While the Marranos are commonly associated with the persecution of Jews at the time of the Spanish Inquisition, Donatella Di Cesare sees the Marranos as the quintessential figure of the modern condition: the Marranos were not just those that modernity has cast out as the ‘other’, but were those ‘others’ who were forced to disavow their beliefs and conceal themselves. They were ‘the other’s other’, the product of a double exclusion, condemned to a life of existential duplicity with no way out, spurned by both Catholics and Jews and unable fully to belong to either community. But this double life of the Marrano turned out also to be a secret source of strength. Doubly estranged, with no possibility of redemption, the Marrano was the protagonist not only of an external emigration but also of an internal migration: the exploration of the inner territory of the self and a predisposition towards radical thinking that would become hallmarks of modernity. By treating the history of the Marranos as a prism through which to grasp the defining features of modernity, this highly original book that will be of interest to wide readership.
