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4 février 2013
- handle: 10670/1.j0rvo1
- isbn: 9789639241787
- eisbn: 9786155053795
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Portugal Marranos Jews Sephardim Jewish women Biography ethnic relations History HIS037090 HBLHSujets proches
Family Family structure Families--Social aspects Families--Social conditions Family life Structure, Family Family relationships Relationships, Family Biography--Ancestry Relations with family Biography--Descendants Biography--Family AncestryCiter ce document
Marianna D. Birnbaum, « Chapter 1. Introducing the family », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.j0rvo1
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This book is about Señora Gracia Mendes (Luna), the wealthy sixteenth-century widow of Portuguese origin who, for many decades, while a practicing Christian, remained a secret Jew. Her career and that of her family spanned the map of Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to Italy (where she later openly embraced Judaism) to Turkey and to Ottoman-ruled Palestine. Part of Gracia’s family arrived in the mid-1490s in Portugal, where she was born in 1510 and where, at the age of eighteen, she married...