Title Bastards and believers : Jewish converts and conversion from the Bible to the present / edited by Theodor Dunkelgrün and Paweł Maciejko

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser Jewish culture and contexts. Contents Cover -- Bastards and Believers -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Term Ger and the Concept of Conversion in the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 2. Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other -- Chapter 3. Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France -- Chapter 4. Of Purity, Piety, and Plunder: Jewish Apostates and Poverty in Medieval Europe Chapter 5. "Cleanse Me from My Sin": The Social and Cultural Vicissitudes of a Converso Family in Fifteenth-Century Castile -- Chapter 6. Converso Paulinism and Residual Jewishness: Conversion from Judaism to Christianity as a Theologico-political Problem -- Chapter 7. Return by Any Other Name: Religious Change Among Amsterdam's New Jews -- Chapter 8. The Persuasive Path: Giulio Morosini's Derekh Emunah as a Conversion Narrative -- Chapter 9. "Precious Books": Conversion, Nationality, and the Novel, 1810-2010 Chapter 10. Between European Judaism and British Protestantism in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 11. When Life Imitates Art: Shtetl Sociability and Conversion in Imperial Russia -- Chapter 12. Opposition, Integration, and Ambiguity: Toward a History of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate's Policies on Conversion to Judaism -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index Summary Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own and speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life Analysis Jewish history religious conversion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject Christian converts from Judaism. Jews -- Conversion to Christianity. Jewish converts from Christianity. Jewish Christians. Conversion -- Christianity -- History Conversion -- Judaism -- History RELIGION / Judaism / History. Christian converts from Judaism Conversion -- Christianity Conversion -- Judaism Jewish Christians Jewish converts from Christianity Jews -- Conversion to Christianity Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Dunkelgrün, Theodor, 1976- author. Maciejko, Paweł, 1971- editor. ISBN 9780812296754 0812296753

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