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A Historian in Exile - Solomon ibn Verga, "Shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter (Hardcover)
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A Historian in Exile - Solomon ibn Verga, "Shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Solomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling
the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his Shevet
Yehudah (The Scepter of Judah, ca. 1520) numbered among the most
popular Hebrew books of the sixteenth century. Its title page lured
readers and buyers with a promise to relate "the terrible events
and calamities that afflicted the Jews while in the lands of
non-Jewish peoples": blood libels, disputations, conspiracies, evil
decrees, expulsions, and more. The book itself preserves collective
memories, illuminates a critical and transitional phase in Jewish
history, and advances a new vision of European society and
government. It reflects a world of renaissance, reformation, and
global exploration but also one fraught with crisis for Christian
majority and Jewish minority alike. Among the multitudes of Iberian
Jewish conversos who had received Christian baptism by the end of
the fifteenth century, ibn Verga experienced the destruction of
Spanish-Portuguese Jewry just as the Catholic Church began to lose
exclusive control over the structures of Western religious life;
and he joined other Europeans in reevaluating boundaries and
affiliations that shaped their identities. In A Historian in Exile,
Jeremy Cohen shows how Shevet Yehudah bridges the divide between
the medieval and early modern periods, reflecting a contemporary
consciousness that a new order had begun to replace the old. Ibn
Verga's text engages this receding past in conversation, Cohen
contends; it uses historical narrative to challenge regnant
assumptions, to offer new solutions to age-old problems, to call
Jews to task for bringing much of the hostility toward them upon
themselves, and to chart a viable direction for a people seeking a
place to call home in a radically transformed world.
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