Divided Souls
eBook - PDF

Divided Souls

Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Divided Souls

Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750

About this book

This pioneering book reevaluates the place of converts from Judaism in the narrative of Jewish history. Long considered beyond the pale of Jewish historiography, converts played a central role in shaping both noxious and positive images of Jews and Judaism for Christian readers. Focusing on German Jews who converted to Christianity in the sixteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries, Elisheva Carlebach explores an extensive and previously unexamined trove of their memoirs and other writings. These fascinating original sources illuminate the Jewish communities that the converts left, the Christian society they entered, and the unabating tensions between the two worlds in early modern German history.

The book begins with the medieval images of converts from Judaism and traces the hurdles to social acceptance that they encountered in Germany through early modern times. Carlebach examines the converts' complicated search for community, a quest that was to characterize much of Jewish modernity, and she concludes with a consideration of the converts' painful legacies to the Jewish experience in German lands.

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300133066
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
History of Religion

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. Chapter 1 THE MEDIEVAL LEGACY
  6. Chapter 2 THE LOST CROWN OF SYNAGOGA
  7. Chapter 3 THE TURNING POINT
  8. Chapter 4 THE LAST DECEPTION
  9. Chapter 5 WRITING THE DIVIDED SELF
  10. Chapter 6 THE PROFESSIONS OF CONVERSION
  11. Chapter 7 CONVERSION AND RUPTURE OF THE FAMILY
  12. Chapter 8 CONVERSION, LANGUAGE, AND IDENTITY
  13. Chapter 9 REVEALING THE SECRETS OF JUDAISM
  14. Chapter 10 REPRESENTATION AND RIVALRY
  15. Chapter 11 CONCLUSION
  16. APPENDIX: THE CONVERSION AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRIEDRICH ALBRECHT CHRISTIANI (LEBENS=LAUFF)
  17. NOTES
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  19. Index