The Marranos of Spain: From the Late 14th to the Early 16th Century, According to Contemporary Hebrew Sources, Third Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801485681 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Marranos of Spain Very interesting but not what I was looking for. The book entails repetitive arguments from various Rabbi about the spiritual, mental and physical condition of these Jewish people caught in the expulsion and religious change to Christianity in Spain in some cases to avoid the Spanish Inquision. The references are as long as the book itself. A lot of rock throwing to keep t. David said Christians or Apostates?. The Marranos of Spain is a landmark study for this period of Spanish history and the Jews of Spain. Its importance lies within the utlized sources, which for the first time in the scholarly research of Marranos, someone is intelligent enough to integrate Hebrew sources, religous as well as secular, in order to have a better picture.However, Netanyahu's analysis leaves much. "The Marranos of Spain" according to Nissim Israel. It satisfied my curiosity and research. It took me where I needed to go to understand that period of history.
"This book's revolutionary thesis dispels the romanticized heroic image of the Marrano found in Jewish literary and historical annals. Netanyahu's conception of the Marranos is of a people whose majority hardly resisted assimilation to Spanish culture and Christianity. Consequently, he unhesitatingly rejects the Inquisition's claim that it was established for the sole purpose of preserving the integrity of Christianity against the undermining effects of Marranism."Isaac Barzilay, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
"This book's revolutionary thesis dispels the romanticized heroic image of the Marrano found in Jewish literary and historical annals," says Isaac Barzilay, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. In this seminal work, which opened an ongoing debate on the nature of conversion and belief in late medieval Spain, Netanyahu analyzes evidence on the Marranos contained in the Hebrew sources. Consequently, he unhesitatingly rejects the Inquisition's claim that it was established for the sole purpose of preserving the integrity of Christianity against the undermining effects of Marranism.". For this new edition, the author has updated the book and added an Afterword in which he considers some of the scholarly reactions to the work since the publication of the first edition in 1966. "Netanyahu's conception of the Marranos is of a people whose majority hardly resisted assimilation to Spanish culture and Christianity. Netanyahu, one o