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Bastards and believers : Jewish converts and conversion from the Bible to the present
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"This book covers conversion from Christianity to Judaism and from Judaism to Christianity, but primarily the latter. It also addresses the question of whether Jewish converts to Christianity ever ...
"This book covers conversion from Christianity to Judaism and from Judaism to Christianity, but primarily the latter. It also addresses the question of whether Jewish converts to Christianity ever lose their Jewishness"--
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- Creator
- edited by Theodor Dunkelgrün and Paweł Maciejko
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- Language
- English
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
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- vi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812251883, 0812296753, 0812251881, 9780812296754
- OCLC
- on1112785709, on1156230582, on1155395203
- "Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from the Herbert D. Katz Publications Fund of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The term Ger and the concept of conversion in the Hebrew Bible / Sara Japhet -- Ex-Jews and early Christians : conversion and the allure of the other / Andrew S. Jacobs -- Conversion to Judaism as reflected in the rabbinic writings and culture of Medieval Ashkenaz : between Germany and Northern France / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- "Cleanse me from my sin" : the social and cultural vicissitudes of a converso family in fifteenth-century Castile / Javier Castaño -- Of purity, piety, and plunder: Jewish apostates and poverty in medieval Europe / Paola Tartakoff -- Converso Paulinism and residual Jewishness : conversion from Judaism to Christianity as a theologico-political problem / Claude B. Stuczynski -- Return by any other name : religious change among Amsterdam's new Jews / Anne Oravetz Albert -- The persuasive path : Giulio Morosini's Derekh Emunah as a conversion narrative / Michela Andreatta -- "Precious books" : conversion, nationality, and the novel, 1810-2010 / Sarah Gracombe -- Between European Judaism and British Protestantism in the early nineteenth century / Elliott Horowitz -- When life imitates art : shtetl sociability and conversion in Imperial Russia / Ellie Schainker -- Opposition, integration, and ambiguity : toward a history of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate's policies on conversion to Judaism / Netanel Fisher