Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 

A Portuguese–Jewish Exception? A Historiographical Introduction

Bruno Feitler and Claude B. Stuczynski

Part 1

From Iberia to the Mediterranean

Chapter 2

Medieval Hebrew-Portuguese Texts in Aljamía

Meritxell Blasco Orellana and José Ramón Magdalena Nom de Déu

Chapter 3

Don Isaac Abravanel and The Capture of Arzila in August 1471. Expansion, Communal Leadership and Cultural Networks

Cédric Cohen-Skalli

Chapter 4

New Sources in Portuguese Aljamiado

A Collection of Letters Concerning the Commercial Activities of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire and Italy During the Mid-Sixteenth Century

Dov Cohen

Chapter 5

The Orphans’ Portion and the Jews of Miranda do Douro in 1490

Javier Castaño

Part 2

Under the Gaze of the Holy Office

Chapter 6

Baptized or Not? The Inquisitors’ Dilemma in Trials of Portuguese Jews from Dutch Brazil, 1645-1647

Miriam Bodian

Chapter 7

A Little-Known Gibe at the Inquisition by Father António Vieira (1608-1697)

Translation and annotation by Herman Prins Salomon

Chapter 8

The Last Marranos in Venice

Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini

Part 3

New Christians and (Other) Identities

Chapter 9

Conrad Gessner Edits Brudus Lusitanus. The Trials and Tribulations of Publishing a Sixteenth Century Treatise on Dietetics

António Manuel Lopes Andrade

Chapter 10

Economic Know-How and Arbitrism in 1600. The Memoriales of Pedro de Baeça

Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano

Chapter 11

António and Francisco Vaz Pinto. Portuguese New Christian homens da nação in the Court of Rome

James W. Nelson Novoa

Chapter 12

Two Biographies of Converted Jews in Contrast. João Baptista d’Este and António Garcia Soldani

José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim

Chapter 13

The Ark on Stage. A Calderonian Allegory and Its Crypto-Judaic Transformation by Antonio Enríquez Gómez

Carsten L. Wilke

Part 4

Western Sephardic Variations

Chapter 14 

La Machabea and the First Portuguese of the Northern Netherlands

Harm den Boer

Chapter 15

Paraphrastic Commentary to the Pentateuch by Isaac Aboab da Fonseca

Moisés Orfali

Chapter 16

D’Holbach and the Dissertation sur le Messie. Some Enigmas, and a New Source

Myriam Silvera

Chapter 17

The Abduction of a Girl in Order to Marry Her and Other Clandestine Marriages in the Sephardic Community of London in the Early Eighteenth Century

Yosef Kaplan

Chapter 18

A Treasured Trove. Sefardic Manuscripts and Books from Altona and Hamburg

Michael Studemund-Halévy

Part 5

Luso-Brazilian Policies during the Holocaust

Chapter 19

Portugal and the Holocaust

Irene Flunser Pimentel

Chapter 20

The “New State” Regimes of Brazil and Portugal and their Diplomats Regarding the Persecution of Jews during the Holocaust. A Comparative Analysis

Avraham Milgram

Appendix

Chapter 21

Chinese Porcelain Ordered by Portuguese Jews in the Diaspora

Roberto Bachmann

Index of Names

Index of Places