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Yosef Kaplan is the Bernard Cherrick Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the history of the Marranos and the Western Sephardi diaspora, including From Christianity to Judaism (Oxford, 1989), The Western Sephardi Diaspora (Tel Aviv, 1994), and Les Nouveux juifs d’Amsterdam (Paris, 1998).
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Yosef Kaplan is the Bernard Cherrick Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the history of the Marranos and the Western Sephardi diaspora, including From Christianity to Judaism (Oxford, 1989), The Western Sephardi Diaspora (Tel Aviv, 1994), and Les Nouveux juifs d’Amsterdam (Paris, 1998).
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By Yosef Kaplan
The essays in this volume deal with the social and intellectual history of the western Spanish and Portuguese Jews who established new communities in north western Europe during the 17th century.
The founders of these communities were mainly former “Marranos”, descendants of those Jews who had converted to Christianity in the closing years of the Middle Ages. After being separated from the Jewish world for many generations, they returned to Judaism and became an integral part of the Sephardi nation.
Amsterdam became the metropolis of this new Jewish diaspora, which was charaterized by both its involvement in colonial trade and its intellectual ferment.
The reencounter of these Jews with Judaism was a complex affair, and for many of these former New Christians rabbinic Judaism aroused harsh criticism. In order to set the boundaries of their new identity, the leadership of the Sephardi communities of Amsterdam, Hamburg and London adopted a variety of strategies designed to rein in these wayward spirits. This process of socialisation into the Jewish world created a new type of Judaism, and those whose Jewish life was framed by this new amalgam can be considered the precursors of modernity in European Jewish society.
Йосеф Каплан
Очерки, вошедшие в сборник, посвящены социальной и интеллектуальной истории западной сефардской диаспоры, которая образовалась в XVI–XVII веках из покинувших Пиренейский полуостров и обосновавшихся в крупных торговых городах Западной Европы крещеных евреев — марранов. Возвращение в иудаизм было сопряжено для этих людей с рядом социальных и духовных проблем, особенности их религиозности нередко вызывали серьезные нарекания со стороны представителей традиционного иудаизма. Общины Амстердама, Гамбурга и Лондона, уникальные по степени интеграции в жизнь окружающего большинства, первыми в еврейском мире вступили в динамичный европейский мир Нового времени.
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