The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes
The historical biography of a true Jewish heroine in her day, Gracia Mendes. Born in 1510 in Portugal, the book details this woman's extraordinary personality until her death in 1569 in Constantinople (today's Istanbul). Her life exemplified a perseverance by the Jewish culture to survive...
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| स्वरूप: | Livre numérique |
| भाषा: | Anglais |
| प्रकाशित: |
Budapest :
Central European University Press
2013.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
| टिप्पणी: |
Description d'après la consultation, 2017-01-20 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 156 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes, Texte imprimé, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2003 |
| सारांश: | The historical biography of a true Jewish heroine in her day, Gracia Mendes. Born in 1510 in Portugal, the book details this woman's extraordinary personality until her death in 1569 in Constantinople (today's Istanbul). Her life exemplified a perseverance by the Jewish culture to survive and triumph even in the worst of conditions. As a young girl, Gracia secretly married successful Jewish spice trader, Francisco Mendes. But at age 27 she became a widow, yet she went on to raise her children and run the family business all on her own. Her travels led her through Antwerp, Venice, Ferrara, Ragusa, and finally to Constantinople, from where the Ottoman Empire dominated former Byzantium territories and offered shelter for battered Conversos (converted Jews). The text recounting the last fifteen years of Gracia's life at the center of the Empire is particularly revealing. Birnbaum's biography has the unique distinction of being the first among many studies to pay tribute to a woman during this period. It is also one of the first titles to pay equal attention to the lives of the Conversos in Christian West Europe and in the Muslim East |
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| वस्तु वर्णन: | Description d'après la consultation, 2017-01-20 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 156 p. OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| स्वरूप: | Navigateur Web |
| आईएसबीएन: | 9786155053795 |
| अभिगमन: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition |