Secret conversions to Judaism in early modern Europe /
This work deals with conversions to Judaism from the 16th to the 18th century. It provides six case studies by scholars on phenomena as crypto-Judaism, "judaizing", reversion of Jewish-Christian converts and secret conversion of non-Jewish Christians for intellectual reasons.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 122. |
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| Online Access: | Available via EBSCO eBook Collection |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Martin Mulsow and Richard H. Popkin
- George Buchanan, Crypto-Judaism, and the Critique of European Empire / Arthur Williamson
- Can one be a True Christian and a Faithful Follower of the Law of Moses? The Answer of John Dury / Richard H. Popkin
- "Ich will dich nach Holland schicken ... ": Amsterdam and the Reversion to Judaism of German-Jewish Converts / Elisheva Carlebach
- Judaizing in the Seventeenth Century: Francis Mercury van Helmont and Johann Peter Spath (Moses Germanus) / Allison P. Coudert
- Cartesianism, Skepticism and Conversion to Judaism. The Case of Aaron d'Antan / Martin Mulsow
- Lord George Gordon and Cabalistic Freemasonry: Beating Jacobite Swords into Jacobian Ploughshares / Marsha Keith Schuchard.