Secret Conversions To Judaism In Early Modern Europe
Martin Mulsow and Richard H. Popkin
ISBN 90-04-12883-2
CONTENTS
Introduction ................................................................................ 1
Martin Mulsow/Richard H. Popkin
George Buchanan, Crypto-Judaism, and the Critique of European Empire .................................................................. 19
Arthur Williamson
Can one be a True Christian and a Faithful Follower of the Law of Moses? The Answer of John Dury .................. 33
Richard H. Popkin
“Ich will dich nach Holland schicken . . .â€: Amsterdam and the Reversion to Judaism of German-Jewish Converts .................................................................................. 51
Elisheva Carlebach
Judaizing in the Seventeenth Century: Francis Mercury van Helmont and Johann Peter Späth (Moses Germanus) ...... 71
Allison P. Coudert
Cartesianism, Skepticism and Conversion to Judaism. The Case of Aaron d’Antan ................................................ 123
Martin Mulsow
Lord George Gordon and Cabalistic Freemasonry: Beating Jacobite Swords into Jacobin Ploughshares ........................ 183
Marsha Keith Schuchard
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Index of Names .......................................................................... 233