From Christianity to Judaism

The Story of Isaac Orobio De Castro

AvYosef Kaplan

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Isaac Orobio de Castro, acrypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures ofthe Sephardi Diaspora in the seventeenth century. After studying medicine andtheology in Spain, and having pursued a distinguished medical career, he wasarrested by the Spanish Inquisition for practising Judaism, tortured, tired,and imprisoned. He subsequently emigrated to France and became a professor ofmedicine at the University of Toulouse before openly professing his Judaism andgoing to Amsterdam where he joined the thriving Portuguese Jewish community.Amsterdam was then a city of great cultural creativity and religious pluralismwhere Orobio found open to him the world of religious thinkers and learnedscholars. In this atmosphere he flourished and became an outstanding spokesmanand apologist for the Jewish community. He engaged in controversy with Juan dePrado and Baruch Spinoza, who were both excommunicated by the Portuguese Jewishcommunity, as well as with Christian theologians of various sects anddenominations, including Philip van Limborch.This fascinatingbiography of Orobio sheds light on the complex life of a unique Jewishcommunity of former Christians who had openly returned to Judaism. It focuseson the particular dilemmas of the converts, their attempts to establishboundaries between their Christian past and their new identity, their internal conflicts,and their ability to create new forms of Jewish life and expression.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-08-12
Mått:140 x 216 x 31 mm
Vikt:704 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska, Hebreiska
Serie:Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Antal sidor:550
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781904113140

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Yosef Kaplan is Bernard Cherrick Professor of Medieval and Modern Jewish History and Director of the School of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on early modern Jewish history and on the western Sephardi diaspora; his most recent book is An Alternative Path to Modernity (2000).

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'Excellent and even extraordinary ... Kaplan's book is more than a biography, even more than a study of an entire community: it is a treasure-house of information and new source material that will make it one of the most important works of Jewish history published in many years... [a] model study of one of the most compelling figures in the world of early modern Jewry.' David S. Katz, English Historical Review

Innehållsförteckning

Preface to the HebrewEditionPreface to the EnglishEditionList of platesMaps and TablesList of AbbreviationsFrom Portugal to Spain: The Alvares de Orobio Family University Studies: Osuna and Alcalá • The Plague atMálaga, 1637: Baltazar Alvares’ AccountA Long Brush with the Inquisition, 1639–1643Isabel Luis and Andrés de Narváez • Violante de Paz,her Children, and her Brother José de Castro • Manuel Alvares and Santiago LuisBuilding a Career in AndalusiaProfessor at Seville and Service to the Duke of Medinaceli• Scientific Discussion of Phlebotomy • CádizImprisoned by the Seville InquisitionFreedomThe Last Years in Spain • Toulouse • Associations withthe Price of Condé and the King of France • Amsterdam: The Dutch JerusalemDoubt and CertaintyOrobio de Castro’s Questions to Rabbi Moses Raphaeld’Aguilar • Isaac Orobio and Juan de Prado: Intellectual Ferment in SephardiAmsterdamPhilosopher, Communal Leader, PhysicianRaymond Lull’s Philosopht Debated • Communal Activitywithin the Portuguese Congregation • Medical Practice in Amsterdam • PersonalStanding and Material CircumstancesIsaac Orobio and SabbateanismFacing Calvinists and CatholicsDebate with a Huguenot on Salvation • ‘DivineForewarning’ against Catholic ‘Idolatry’ • Tracts on the ‘Seventy Weeks and the‘Suffering Servant’ • Judaism vis-à-visChristianityPhilosophers, Theologians, and PoetsSpinoza and Metaphysics: Meeting the Challenge • A‘Friendly Conversation’: Isaac Orobio and Philip van Limborch • Poets,Poetasters, and Patrons: The Academia delos Floridos • Last DaysThe Intellectual World of Orobio de CastroThe Hispanic Heritage • Between Scholasticism andFideistic Scepticism • Political and Social AttitudesFrom Crypto-Judaism to Open JudaismA New Jewish Perspective on Converso Life • The Jewish World: From Dreams to Reality • Israeland the Gentiles • The Jewish Fate: Exile and RedemptionEpilogueAppendicesA The Iconography of Isaac OrobioB Poetical Account of the Plague of Málaga,1637, by Baltasar Alvares (Isaac Orobio de Castro)C Schedule of Moveable Property of Baltasar(Isaac) Orobio Sequestrated by the Inquisition at Cádiz, August 1654D Membership of the Academia de losFloridosE Manuscripts of Works by Isaac Orobio deCastroF Orobio’s Letters to Prado’s Son: A TextualComparisonG Translations of Orobio’s Works in theEighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesH Works Attributed to OrobioBibliographyName IndexPlace IndexSubject Index