Beschreibung:
Ronnie Perelis is the Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Chair and Assistant Professor of Sephardic Studies at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University.
Introduction1. Audience and Archive: Text, Context, and the Literary Construction of Experience2. "Hermanos en el Señor": Spiritual and Social Fraternity and Paternity in Luis de Carvajal, el mozo's Spiritual Autobiography (Mexico 1595)3. A Prophetic Matrix: Motherhood, Sorority and a Re-imagined Sagrada Familia4. Writing His Way into the Jewish People: Faith, Blood and Community in Manuel Cardoso de Macedo's Vida del buenaventurado Abraham Pelengrino5. "All of us are Brothers": Race, Faith and the Limits of Brotherhood in theRelación of Antonio de Montezinos, alias Aharon HaLevi (1644)AfterwordBibliographyIndex