Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas
2.º semestre 2020
23
resumo
Todos los trabajos sobre la recepción de la actualidad política y social de la España contemporánea en la prensa sefardí realizados hasta la fecha, muestran un escaso interés por nuestro país. Sin embargo, el inicio de la Guerra Civil Española marca un drástico cambio de tendencia, como atestiguan los más de 800 textos publicados entre 1936 y 1939 sacados del periódico salonicense en judeoespañol aljamiado Acción, que presentamos y estudiamos en este trabajo. Del análisis de su contenido y de las fuentes de información y postura del periódico, se concluye que el «repentino» interés de los sefardíes por España queda lejos de deberse a algún tipo de conexión sentimental o identitaria, sino que viene determinado por la relevancia del conflicto bélico español en el contexto geopolítico europeo del momento.
Armin Langer (Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin; Reconstructionist Rabbinical College) – Adapting to Protestant Norms and American Republicanism: Jewish Integration in the Late Colonial and Early United States Periods on the Example of New York Congregation Shearith Israel
Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas 23 (2020): 47-68
palavras-chave
New York; Sephardic Jews; acculturation; Protestantism; secularization
resumo
The history of New York City’s Sephardic Jewish community Shearith Israel dates back to the year of 1654. For decades, the community lived in legal separation within a framework of the traditional Jewish kahal structure. This changed after the 1777 disestablishment of the Church of England as New York’s state church. In the revolutionary era, American lawmakers introduced a series of acts and constitutions which regulated the structures of religious communities. This paper will present the development of Shearith Israel before its 1784 incorporation and in its aftermath, the conflicts that arose from the community’s incorporation and the benefits as well. The article will also look into the biography and sermons of the community’s spiritual leader, Gershom Mendes Seixas whose life changed dramatically after the 1784 incorporation. All of these events will be evaluated from a perspective of integration research. The article will show how Shearith Israel and Gershom Mendes Seixas acculturated to post-disestablishment Protestant norms and American Republicanism.
Parte III: Recensões
Susana Bastos Mateus (CESAB-FLUL; CIDEHUS-UÉvora; CEHR-UCP) – Mercedes García-Arenal & Gerard Wiegers, Polemical Encounters. Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond, Iberian Encounters and Exchange, 475-1755 (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019)
Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas 23 (2020): 85-88