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Author Feitler, Bruno, author.

Title The imaginary Synagogue : anti-Jewish literature in the Portuguese early modern world (16th-18th centuries) / by Bruno Feitler
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations
Series The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World ; volume 61
Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 61.
Contents Jews in Portugal and the beginnings of polemical literature -- Portuguese anti-Semitic literary production : forms, objectives, and reception (17th-18th centuries) -- The new Christian image -- Continuity and change : the different currents of anti-Jewish literature -- Conclusion
Summary 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 synagogue 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Portuguese
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Subject Portuguese literature -- History and criticism
Jews in literature.
Judaism in literature.
Antisemitism -- Portugal -- History
Jews -- Portugal -- Civilization -- Influence
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Antisemitism
Jews -- Civilization -- Influence
Jews in literature
Judaism in literature
Portuguese literature
Portugal
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015027372
ISBN 9789004301603
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