Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750

by Elisheva Carlebach

Book Overview

This pioneering book reevaluates the place of converts from Judaism in the narrative of Jewish history. Long considered beyond the pale of Jewish historiography, converts played a central role in shaping both noxious and positive images of Jews and Judaism for Christian readers. Focusing on German Jews who converted to Christianity in the sixteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries, Elisheva Carlebach explores an extensive and previously unexamined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300191405
• ISBN13: 9780300191400
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"