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From Christianity to Judaism
A biography of Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal and one of the most prominent intellectual figures in the 17th century. This work sheds light on the life of a Jewish community of former Christians in Amsterdam and examines their dilemmas and attempts to create a new identity.
Israel Avenged
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Isaac Orobio
The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially in religions, perhaps most notably in Judaism. In such cultural contexts scepticism manifests as a critical attitude towards different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and towards religious and political authorities. It is not merely an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but a critical form of life that expresses itself in such diverse phenomena as religion, literature, and society. Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion and the Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advances Studies.
From Christianity to Judaism
A biography of Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal and one of the most prominent intellectual figures in the 17th century. This work sheds light on the life of a Jewish community of former Christians in Amsterdam and examines their dilemmas and attempts to create a new identity.
Judíos o cristianos?
Describes the structure and methods of the Spanish Inquisition. Ch. 4 (p. 143-183), "Cristianos nuevos portugueses ante el Santo Oficio", focuses on the situation of Portuguese Conversos in Spain between 1643-1730. The secession of Portugal from Spain in 1640, the fall of the Conde de Olivares in 1643, and the general decadence of the country resulted in changes in the tolerant policy of the Spanish Crown toward the influential Portuguese Conversos, allowing the Inquisition to impose a policy of persecuting heterodoxy. Many Conversos were imprisoned or executed, and their property confiscated. A great number emigrated to other countries, resulting in the disappearance of this social group as a relevant factor in Spanish society. States that it is impossible to know from the Inquisitorial documents if the Conversos actually committed the offenses they were accused of.
