Orden de las Oraciones, Amsterdam 1722
Marranos - Liturgy - Spanish
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- Lot Number 49155
- Title (English) Orden de las Oraciones
- Title (Hebrew) סדר תפלות מדי חדש בחדש
- Note Marranos - Liturgy - Spanish
- City Amsterdam
- Publisher En Casa de Samuel Texeyra Tartaz, Hazan de Vatikin
- Publication Date 1722
- Estimated Price - Low 1,000
- Estimated Price - High 2,000
- Item # 1518123
- End Date
- Start Date
Physical Description
[2 of 4], [14],535; [18] ff., octavo, 150:96 mm., light age and use staining, nice margins, lacking title. A good copy bound in recent leather over boards.
Detail Description
Year round prayerbook following the customs of Sefard in Spanish. Written for the use of the Marrranos in Amsterdam.Marranos were Jews living in Iberia who were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages yet continued to practice Judaism in secret. "Marrano" is now often considered offensive and "crypto-Jew" is preferred in scholarly works. Marranos did not arrive in Amsterdam until around 1590, some 11 years after the Union of Utrecht (1579) and the birth of the United Provinces of the Netherlands as a Protestant state. They had to wait until 1615 before Jewish settlement was officially authorized, but the Marranos in Amsterdam differed from those in other Protestant countries in that they openly practiced Judaism almost from the moment of their arrival. Thanks to the Marranos, Amsterdam became one of the greatest Jewish centers in the world in the 17th century; it had some of the finest academies and produced some of the greatest Jewish thinkers.
Reference
Not in Kayserling: EJ