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- Title
The Jewish-Portuguese community of Hamburg between 1652 and 1682.
- Authors
MARTINS, Hugo Filipe Castilho Cabrita
- Abstract
The current thesis investigates the Portuguese Jewish community of Hamburg in the context of its integration process, relationship to host and local communities, construction of communal identity and self-representation, as well as the varying circumstances in which it developed its cultural, political and religious life during the 17th century, and most specifically from 1652 till 1682. Although fully integrated in the cultural precepts of the "Nação", the community of Hamburg was forced to develop some particularities that distinguished it from the wider Sephardi world, fact which raises some important questions, such as: which constrains contributed to a distinct evolution in relation to the remainders of the modern Jewish Diaspora? What were the major forces driving its history and how did the community responded to its cultural and geopolitical climate, forging its own path in the narrative of the Sephardi Diaspora?
- Subjects
PORTUGUESE Jews; GERMAN Jews; LEGAL self-representation
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p237
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract