The imaginary Synagogue
Subtitle: anti-Jewish literature in the Portuguese early-modern world (16th-18th centuries)
By: by Bruno Feitler ; translated by Eoin O'Neil
Series: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World -- 61; Medieval and early modern Iberian world -- v. 61.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9789004264106; 9789004301603
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Portuguese literature; History and criticism; Jews in literature; Judaism in literature; Antisemitism; History; Jews; Civilization; Influence
Description: 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 &#x91;synagogue&#x92; 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.