Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities

The Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. The contributions...

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Other Authors: Kaplan, Yosef (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brill 2019
Series:Studies in Jewish History and Culture 54
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Summary:The Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. The contributions in this volume detail those transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities. Readership: All interested in Early Modern Jewish History and Sephardic Studies, and anyone concerned with the process of confessionalization in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (656 p.)
ISBN:9789004392489
Access:Open Access