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- Title
A Spanish Converso's Quest for Justice: The Life and Dream Fiction of Antonio Enríquez Gómez.
- Authors
Warshawsky, Matthew
- Abstract
This article presents the historical background of the converso experience in Spain as a means of contextualizing the subsequent description of Spanish converso Antonio Enríquez Gómez's life during the 16th century both in and out of Spain. Analysis of three narratives written in the form of dreams while the author was living as an exile in France will argue that his criticism of invented inquisitions and those individuals who work for them is not an apology for Judaism. Long after Spain's Jews had either fled or converted to Christianity in 1492, many of their descendants who remained as conversos, or New Christians, became important contributors to the country's literary and cultural Golden Age of the 1500s and 1600s.
- Subjects
SPAIN; MARRANOS; CHRISTIAN converts from Judaism; JUDAISM; JEWISH Christians; SEMITES -- Religion
- Publication
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2005, Vol 23, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0882-8539
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sho.2005.0124