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Informationen zum Autor By Nathan Wachtel. Translated by Nikki Halpern. Foreword by Yosef Kaplan Klappentext Nathan Wachtel is Professor Emeritus at the College de France and author of numerous books, including Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya and The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish Conquest of Peru Through Indian Eyes, 1530-1570. Nikki Halpern is an independent scholar and translator based in France. Yosef Kaplan is Bernard Cherrick Professor of the History of the Jewish People at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Zusammenfassung This book offers portraits of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Marranos: Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism but secretly retained their own faith. Merging the concerns of an anthropologist with his skills as a historian! Wachtel traces their odyssey from early modern Europe to twenty-first-century Brazil. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword -Yosef Kaplan Introduction: Marranism and Modernity Chapter 1. Juan Vicente's Sanbenito Chapter 2. Heaven Face to Face: Francisco Maldonado de Silva Chapter 3. "They Spoke of the Things of the Law of Moses": Manuel Bautista Perez Chapter 4. "Remember the Mother of the Maccabees!": Regarding Leonor Nuñez Chapter 5. "May Everyone Be What He Is": Francisco Botello and Maria de Zarate Chapter 6. "The Law of the Name Received from the Ancients": Fernando de Medina Chapter 7. "Moses, Son of Queen Esther": Theresa Paes de Jesus Chapter 8. "For in This Time All Is Lies, and All Is Truth": João Thomas de Castro and António José da Silva Conclusion: Faith, Memory, Forgetting Epilogue: "Five Hundred Years of Hunger": Returning Finale: Three Poems by Odmar Pinheiro Braga Glossary Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
