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Shindelman, Sarah V. |
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2018-07-25T21:27:20Z |
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2018-07-25T21:27:20Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2018-07-25 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23501 |
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110 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Romance Languages and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2013. |
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This thesis presents an introduction and a critical translation of a seventeenth-century Jewish apology written by the Sephardic Jew Isaac Cardoso. The Excelencias represents the culmination of Cardoso’s spiritual and physical path from Catholic Spain to the Jewish ghetto in Verona in order to (re)identify with his ancestral religion, Judaism. In the Excelencias, Cardoso defends and explains Judaism to non-Jews, and he helps other conversos like himself make the difficult transition from Christianity to Judaism. The project consists of an introduction giving a short biography of Cardoso, an analysis of the Excelencias, a comparison to three other prominent Jewish apologists of the seventeenth century (Leon da Modena, Simone Luzzatto, Menasseh ben Israel), and a comparison between the Verona ghetto and the Jewish community in Amsterdam (where the text was printed). Afterwards follows the translation with supplementary footnotes of the first two chapters of the Excelencias: “A People Chosen by God” and “One People.” |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Romance Languages, Honors College, B.A., 2013; |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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dc.title |
Las Excelencias de Los Hebreos: An Introduction and Translation of Isaac Cardoso's Seventeenth-Century Apology |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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