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- Title
BECOMING JEWISH IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE: DOCUMENTS ON JEWISH COMMUNITY-BUILDING IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BAYONNE AND PEYREHORADE.
- Abstract
The article examines the process by which the Iberian refugee inhabitants of Bayonne and Peyrehorade in southwestern France adopted the Sephardic Jewish faith and established communities based on Judaist principles in the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the social context in which the transformation took place by analyzing legal dossiers produced from 1674-1678 and 1679-1680, and argues that the means by which the communities "became Jewish" help to explain the unique ethnic identity of the Franco-Sephardi population.
- Subjects
PEYREHORADE (France); BAYONNE (France); FRANCE; SEPHARDIM; JEWISH converts; RELIGIOUS communities; FRENCH Jews; IBERIANS; ETHNIC groups; 17TH century French history; HISTORY; RELIGION
- Publication
Journal of Social History, 2006, Vol 40, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
0022-4529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jsh.2006.0081