HISPANIA JUDAICA BULLETIN

Articles, Reviews, Bibliography and Manuscripts on Sefarad

Editors: Yom Tov Assis and Raquel Ibáñez-Sperber

No 6 5770/2010

Hispania Judaica
The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Editorial

English and Spanish Section

Articles

KENNETH BROWN, El Rabí Açebýn/Ašer ben Yehiel y don Carnal celebran yom tov en
el Libro de Buen Amor
MIGUEL ANGEL MOTIS DOLADER, Reflexiones en torno al procedimiento civil en los
tribunales judíos de Aragón (siglo 15) - El aforismo Dina de-malkhuta dina
MERITXELL BLASCO ORELLANA & JOSÉ RAMÓN MAGDALENA NOM DE DÉU,
Oraciones de Yom Kipur de conversos valencianos en un ms. fragmentario de
finales del siglo 15
MAURO PERANI, The “Gerona Genizah”: An Overview and a Rediscovered Ketubah
of 1377
MARIA JOSÉ FERRO TAVARES, The Castilian Jews in Portugal: An Approach to their
History
NADIA ZELDES, Jews and Conversos in the Writings of Lucio Marineo Siculo:
Historiography and Propaganda
JOSÉ ALBERTO RODRIGUES DA SILVA TAVIM, La “Materia Oriental” en el trayecto de
dos personalidades judías del Imperio Otomano: João Micas / D. Yosef Nasí,
Álvaro Mendes / D. Shelomó Ibn Ya'ish
RUTH FINE, Los rostros de Ester - tres versiones dramáticas auriseculares del libro de
Ester: La hermosa Ester de Lope de Vega, La reina Ester de Godínez y La
gran sultana de Cervantes

Research Project: The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain and its Aftermath in the Life
of the Refugees and their Children
HANNAH DAVIDSON, Fun and Games in the Jewish Communities of the Mediterranean
at the Turn of the 16th Century
JAMES W. NELSON NOVOA, The Trial of Diogo Fernandes Neto by the Tribunale del
governatore di Roma
ALDINA QUINTANA, The Merger of the Hispanic Medieval Heritage
with the Jewish Tradition in Judeo-Spanish Texts (I): Private Letters
DORA ZSOM, The Return of the Conversos to Judaism in the Ottoman Empire and
North-Africa

Book Reviews
Bibliography and Manuscripts
Author's Guidelines and Transliteration
Contributors

Hebrew Section
YOM TOV ASSIS, “The Exile of Sefarad in Provence”: A Cultural and Religious
Revolution in Provençal Jewry in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
NITAI SHINAN, The Cortes of Cádiz and the Anti-Jewish Tradition: Change or
Continuity?
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The present paper is an attempt to clarify the question how the conversos intended
to return to their ancestral faith. The responsa literature provides vital information
about the practical matters the return of the conversos raised; it reveals what kind
of formal requirements they had to face; and sheds some light on the question of
how they were accepted by Jewish communities. However it should not be forgotten
that due to the nature of the responsa these sources have to be studied with the
greatest care and caution, to avoid reaching inappropriate conclusions on their
basis.

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