ISBN: 9780791408025 - in the shadow of history: jews and conversos at the dawn of modernity (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. see photos.

Albany, State University of New York Press, 1992. 311 pp. Very good copy. Paperback. Sephardic history. This book focuses on the Iberian Jews and conversos, Jews who converted to Christianity. It explores the idea of the other in both Jewish and Christian traditions, the differences between the perspectives of the persecuted and persecutors, and the vision of modernity among some of the Iberian Jews of the period. Special attention is devoted to da Costa and Spinoza, offering a new perspective on the Jewish history of ideas.…