"My Mother Often Told Me": Dutch Sephardi Postmemory and the 1635 Yom Kippur Raid of the Madrid Inquisition.
In this article I study a Sephardi oral tradition that transmitted the memory of Inquisitorial persecution over the course of more than a century. In 1736, the Amsterdam Jewish polemicist Abraham Gómez Silveyra looked back at the most incisive moment in his family history: his ancestors, Portuguese...
| Publicado en: | Jewish Social Studies Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 41 - 69 |
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