{"product_id":"the-other-within-yirmiyahu-yovel-9780691135717","title":"The Other Within: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these \"Conversos\" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their fascinating story and reflects on what it means for modern forms of identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe describes the Marranos as \"the Other within\"--people who both did and did not belong. Rejected by most Jews as renegades and by most veteran Christians as Jews with impure blood, Marranos had no definite, integral identity, Yovel argues. The \"Judaizers\"--Marranos who wished to remain secretly Jewish--were not actually Jews, and those Marranos who wished to assimilate were not truly integrated as Hispano-Catholics. Rather, mixing Jewish and Christian symbols and life patterns, Marranos were typically distinguished by a split identity. They also discovered the subjective mind, engaged in social and religious dissent, and demonstrated early signs of secularity and this-worldliness. In these ways, Yovel says, the Marranos anticipated and possibly helped create many central features of modern Western and Jewish experience. One of Yovel's philosophical conclusions is that split identity--which the Inquisition persecuted and modern nationalism considers illicit--is a genuine and inevitable shape of human existence, one that deserves recognition as a basic human freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on historical studies, Inquisition records, and contemporary poems, novels, treatises, and other writings, this engaging critical history of the Marrano experience is also a profound meditation on dual identities and the birth of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yirmiyahu Yovel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691135711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691135717\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/03\/2009 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/23\/2009 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/11\/2010 pg. 22","brand":"Yirmiyahu Yovel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44756957102335,"sku":"9780691135717","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be3b3f33-a264-4f8e-9487-88f2cd1626de.jpg?v=1706594234","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-other-within-yirmiyahu-yovel-9780691135717","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}