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Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora - Queen of the Conversas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R3,455
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Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora - Queen of the Conversas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Emily Colbert...

Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora - Queen of the Conversas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Emily Colbert Cairns

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This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people -- was contested in the cultures of early modern Europe, authored as a symbol of conformity as well as resistance. At once a queen and minority figure under threat, for a changing Iberian and broader European landscape, Esther was compelling and relatable precisely because of her hybridity. She was an early modern globetrotter and border transgressor. Emily Colbert Cairns analyzes the many retellings of the biblical heroine that were composed in a turbulent early modern Europe. These narratives reveal national undercurrents where religious identity was transitional and fluid, thus problematizing the fixed notion of national identity within a particular geographic location. This volume instead proposes a model of a Sephardic nationality that existed beyond geographical borders.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: July 2017
First published: 2017
Authors: Emily Colbert Cairns
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 189
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-57866-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
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LSN: 3-319-57866-9
Barcode: 9783319578668

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