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In the 17th century, descendants of forcibly baptised Jews (conversos) fled the Iberian Inquisitions to settle in Amsterdam, a city renowned for its commercial ties and religious tolerance. On arrival the conversos lacked clear ethnic or religious identities and had little social organisation. Yet, they formed the nucleus of what became within a generation a strongly cohesive community with a highly structured and well-developed sense of its Jewish identity. Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, Miriam Bodian reconstructs the fascinating story of how these Portuguese immigrant - merchants, professionals, and intellectuals, for the most part - reasserted their Judaism, while maintaining their Iberian heritage.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation
• Subtitle: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
• Author: Miriam Bodian
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780253213518
• ISBN: 0253213517
• ID: 04870522
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 364 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 158 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. July 1999

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