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The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these "Conversos" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their fascinating story and reflects on what it means for modern forms of identity. He describes the Marranos as "the Other within"--people who both did and did not belong. Rejected by most Jews as renegades and by most veteran Christians as Jews with impure blood, Marranos had no definite, integral identity, Yovel argues. The "Judaizers"--Marranos who wished to remain secretly Jewish--were not actually Jews, and those Marranos who wished to assimilate were not truly integrated as Hispano-Catholics. Rather, mixing Jewish and Christian symbols and life patterns, Marranos were typically distinguished by a split identity. They also discovered the subjective mind, engaged in social and religious dissent, and demonstrated early signs of secularity and this-worldliness. In these ways, Yovel says, the Marranos anticipated and possibly helped create many central features of modern Western and Jewish experience. One of Yovel's philosophical conclusions is that split identity--which the Inquisition persecuted and modern nationalism considers illicit--is a genuine and inevitable shape of human existence, one that deserves recognition as a basic human freedom. Drawing on historical studies, Inquisition records, and contemporary poems, novels, treatises, and other writings, this engaging critical history of the Marrano experience is also a profound meditation on dual identities and the birth of modernity.

Table of Contents:
Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Part One: A Millennium of Jewish Spain Chapter 1: Sefarad, the Spanish Jerusalem 3 Chapter 2: Reconquest and Revival: The Cross Is Back 29 Chapter 3: Pogroms and Mass Conversions 40 Part Two: Marrano Otherness and Dualities Chapter 4: Conversos: The Other Within 57 Chapter 5: The New Otherness: Duality in Many Faces 78 Chapter 6: Marrano Mosaic I: Places, Persons, Poems 103 Chapter 7: The Arias d'Avilas: Hidden Jews or Marrano Dualists? 126 Part Three: The Growing Marrano Problem Chapter 8: Enrique the Impotent: Prosperity, Anarchy, and Inquisition on the Horizon 139 Chapter 9: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the "True Inquisition" 153 Chapter 10: The Great Expulsion 176 Part Four: Portuguese Marranism Takes Over Chapter 11: Trap in Portugal 189 Chapter 12: Portuguese Inquisition, Pure Blood, and the "Nation" 209 Part Five: New Christian Religions and Spanish Culture Chapter 13: A Judaizing Marrano Religion 227 Chapter 14: New Christians at the Forefront of Spanish Culture 240 Chapter 15: A Christian Religion of the Interior 246 Chapter 16: Picaresque Antiheroes 263 Part Six: Dispersion and Modernity Chapter 17: Marranos Globalized: The Networks, the "Nation" 287 Chapter 18: Marrano Mosaic II: Wanderers, Martyrs, Intellectuals, Dissenters 315 Chapter 19: Marranos and Western Modernity 337 Chapter 20: Marranos and Jewish Modernity 359 Epilogue Present-Day Marranos 378 Appendix: Trends in the Literature 389 Notes 405 Works Cited 457 Index 477

About the Author :
Yirmiyahu Yovel (19352018) was professor emeritus of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include Spinoza and Other Heretics (Princeton); Kant and the Philosophy of History (Princeton); and Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews.

Review :
"The Other Within remains a brilliant reappraisal of modernity's birth."--Giulia F. Miller, Times Higher Education "Impressive and detailed, The Other Within will ... leave many questions unanswered for new generations intrigued by its subject."--Jewish Book World "Here we have a respected author who makes a mammoth endeavour to unravel the long Saga and minds of the Marranos... One can only give praise for the delving efforts, of this lengthy book."--Gloria Mound, Casa Shalom Members Journal "Yovel tackles in considerable depth how the mass conversions of the Jews enforced a psychological duality... Yovel's efforts of historical research are remarkable."--Gloria Mound, European Legacy "[E]rudite and comprehensive study... With a literary style that exhibits clarity of purpose interlaced with passion, Yirmiyahu Yovel supports his thesis with a series of scholarly portraits based on contemporary trial records, personal stories, prayers, customs, and popular poems."--Paulette L. Pepin, Historian "This book is a major contribution to the field of Marrano studies, following on previous major academic studies."--Judith Oumani, Sephardic Horizons "[T]his is a captivating synthesis that reveals much about religious identity and mentality on the eve of modernity."--Gary K. Waite, Canadian Journal of History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691135717
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 512
  • Sub Title: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0691135711
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jan 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 822 gr


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