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Secret Conversions to Judaism in Early Modern Europe

By Martin Mulsow , Richard H. Popkin (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2003
ISBN
9004128832, 9789004128835
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3322677 bytes)
Series
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 122
Pages
237\247
Scanned
no
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00

Description

This volume deals with conversions to Judaism from the 16th to the 18th century. It provides six case studies by leading international scholars on phenomena as crypto-Judaism, ''judaizing,'' reversion of Jewish-Christian converts and secret conversion of non-Jewish Christians for intellectual reasons. The first contributions examine George Buchanan and John Dury, followed by three studies of the milieu of late seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The last essay is concerned with Lord George Gordon and Cabbalistic Freemasonry. The contributions will be of interest for intellectual historians, but also historians of political thought or Jewish studies. Contributors include: Elisheva Carlebach, Allison P. Coudert, Martin Mulsow, Richard H. Popkin, Marsha Keith Schuchard, and Arthur Williamson

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