Imaginary Synagogue : anti-Jewish literature in the Portuguese early modern world (16th-18th centuries), The
Antisemitism Jews in literature Jews Judaism in literature Portuguese literature e-böcker Criticism, interpretation, etc History
Brill
2015
EISBN 9789004301603
Jews in Portugal and the beginnings of polemical literature.
Portuguese anti-Semitic literary production : forms, objectives, and reception (17th-18th centuries).
The new Christian image.
Continuity and change : the different currents of anti-Jewish literature.
Conclusion.
This book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese between the forced conversion of Jews in 1497 and the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. It tries to understand what motivated this vast literary production, its different currents, and how they evolved. Additionally, it studies the image of New Christians and seeks the reasons for the perpetuation of this perception of Jewish descendants in the Early Modern Portuguese world. This book seeks to identify which Jews and which ‘synagogue’ those authors constructed in their texts and their reasons for doing so, and offers conclusions on the self-affirmed Catholic importance of this literary current.
Portuguese anti-Semitic literary production : forms, objectives, and reception (17th-18th centuries).
The new Christian image.
Continuity and change : the different currents of anti-Jewish literature.
Conclusion.
This book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese between the forced conversion of Jews in 1497 and the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. It tries to understand what motivated this vast literary production, its different currents, and how they evolved. Additionally, it studies the image of New Christians and seeks the reasons for the perpetuation of this perception of Jewish descendants in the Early Modern Portuguese world. This book seeks to identify which Jews and which ‘synagogue’ those authors constructed in their texts and their reasons for doing so, and offers conclusions on the self-affirmed Catholic importance of this literary current.
