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From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro
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The life and literary undertakings of Isaac Orobio de Castro are symbolic of the fate and fortunes of the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi diaspora in seventeenth-century western Europe. His passage…

Contributor:

Yosef Kaplan

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1982

Subjects:

Sephardic, Conversion, Conversos, Christian-Jewish relations, Christianity, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture
Narraçāo da vinda dos Judeos espanhões a Amsterdam (Account of the Coming of the Spanish Jews to Amsterdam)
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The illustrious gentlemen, ḥakham R. Mosseh Ury ha-Levi (of blessed memory) and his son, R. Aaron Ury ha-Levi, my father and master: both were residents of Emden, in the province of Oost-Friesland…

Contributor:

Uri ha-Levi

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1711

Subjects:

Sephardic, Conversos, Migration, Economic life, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Historical writing