Nadia Zeldes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3909755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia Zeldes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Zeldes |
| SIGNATURE | ZELDES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Palermo ebraica
The Mass Conversion of 1495 in South Italy and its Precedents
Forced mass conversions were relatively rare in the Middle Ages but they have a central place in both medieval narratives and modern historiography. A distinction should be made between conversions ordered by Christian rulers, and pressure to convert coming from popular elements. Some well-known examples of the first category are the baptism ordered by the Visigothic rulers in Spain and the forced conversion of the Jews in Portugal. The mass conv…
Jewish settlement in Corfu in the aftermath of the expulsions from Spain and southern Italy, 1492–1541
The migration and resettlement of Jewish exiles after 1492 and the successive expulsions of the early sixteenth century was a long and drawn-out process. In fact, the majority of the exiles did not go directly to the Ottoman Empire, and even those who finally reached it as first-generation immigrants did so by staggered waves of migration. The Venetian colonies in the Mediterranean played an important role in this process, both as relatively safe…
The Last Multi-Cultural Encounter in Medieval Sicily
The Dominican friar Pietro Ranzano in his History of Palermo, written around 1470, discussed a presumed ‘Chaldaic’ (actually, Arabic) inscription discovered in that city. Ranzano's rendition of the inscription is based on a legend that first appears in Sefer Josippon, a Hebrew historical work from the tenth century. Although later studies proved that Ranzano was misled in his interpretation of the text, perhaps by the Jews of Palermo, this episod…
The Former Jews of This Kingdom
"The Former Jews of this Kingdom"
This book examines the presence of the converted Jews in Sicily following the 1492 expulsion, discussing their legal status, economic activities and integration into Sicilian society, and the phenomenon of conversion and return of many exiles. The research is based on the account of books of the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily and other contemporary sources. Detailed inventories of confiscated property offer insights into the converts' cultural wor…
Auto de Fe in Palermo, 1511. The First Executions of Judaizers in Sicily
Marranism" has been the subject of a great number of studies but they all focus on the manifestations of this phenomenon in the Iberian peninsula or in the "marrano diaspora". Sicily of the late fifteenth century is the only place outside the Iberian peninsula that had witnessed the independent formation of a large population of New Christians that led to inquisitorial persecution. The present article proposes to rely on a detailed first hand des…
The Last Will and Testament of a Sicilian converso
Le testament de Manfredo La Muta, Sicilien converti mort sur le bucher en 1512, fournit une information importante sur l'etat economique et financier d'une classe bourgeoise de Juifs convertis. Ce testament nous revele entre autres les liens familiaux de l'auteur du testament avec des Juifs exiles au royaume napolitain. Le contenu et la structure du testament nous eclairent sur les coutumes en vigueur en Sicile au debut du XVI e siecle. L'article…
Ad piraticam exercendam
Two notarial contracts from sixteenth‐century Sicily serve to illustrate how piracy was conducted as a semi‐official business practice, condoned by the state and financed by honourable citizens. These contracts shed light on Sicilian maritime activity at the beginning of the modern period
The account books of the Spanish inquisition in Sicily (1500–1550) as a source for the study of material culture in a Mediterranean country
This article attempts to use the account books of the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily as a source for the study of material culture in a Mediterranean country at the beginning of the Modern Period. Situated on a crossroads between the world of Islam and Christian Europe, Sicily was a unique place of encounter. The articles found in Sicilian homes of the urban middle class carry the hallmark of this cross‐cultural influence. The inquisitorial record…
The Last Multi-Cultural Encounter in Medieval Sicily
The Dominican friar Pietro Ranzano in his History of Palermo, written around 1470, discussed a presumed ‘Chaldaic’ (actually, Arabic) inscription discovered in that city. Ranzano's rendition of the inscription is based on a legend that first appears in Sefer Josippon, a Hebrew historical work from the tenth century. Although later studies proved that Ranzano was misled in his interpretation of the text, perhaps by the Jews of Palermo, this episod…
The Mass Conversion of 1495 in South Italy and its Precedents
Forced mass conversions were relatively rare in the Middle Ages but they have a central place in both medieval narratives and modern historiography. A distinction should be made between conversions ordered by Christian rulers, and pressure to convert coming from popular elements. Some well-known examples of the first category are the baptism ordered by the Visigothic rulers in Spain and the forced conversion of the Jews in Portugal. The mass conv…
The account books of the Spanish inquisition in Sicily (1500–1550) as a source for the study of material culture in a Mediterranean country
This article attempts to use the account books of the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily as a source for the study of material culture in a Mediterranean country at the beginning of the Modern Period. Situated on a crossroads between the world of Islam and Christian Europe, Sicily was a unique place of encounter. The articles found in Sicilian homes of the urban middle class carry the hallmark of this cross‐cultural influence. The inquisitorial record…
The Last Will and Testament of a Sicilian converso
Le testament de Manfredo La Muta, Sicilien converti mort sur le bucher en 1512, fournit une information importante sur l'etat economique et financier d'une classe bourgeoise de Juifs convertis. Ce testament nous revele entre autres les liens familiaux de l'auteur du testament avec des Juifs exiles au royaume napolitain. Le contenu et la structure du testament nous eclairent sur les coutumes en vigueur en Sicile au debut du XVI e siecle. L'article…
Ad piraticam exercendam
Two notarial contracts from sixteenth‐century Sicily serve to illustrate how piracy was conducted as a semi‐official business practice, condoned by the state and financed by honourable citizens. These contracts shed light on Sicilian maritime activity at the beginning of the modern period
Auto de Fe in Palermo, 1511. The First Executions of Judaizers in Sicily
Marranism" has been the subject of a great number of studies but they all focus on the manifestations of this phenomenon in the Iberian peninsula or in the "marrano diaspora". Sicily of the late fifteenth century is the only place outside the Iberian peninsula that had witnessed the independent formation of a large population of New Christians that led to inquisitorial persecution. The present article proposes to rely on a detailed first hand des…
The Former Jews of This Kingdom
"The Former Jews of this Kingdom"
This book examines the presence of the converted Jews in Sicily following the 1492 expulsion, discussing their legal status, economic activities and integration into Sicilian society, and the phenomenon of conversion and return of many exiles. The research is based on the account of books of the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily and other contemporary sources. Detailed inventories of confiscated property offer insights into the converts' cultural wor…
The Last Multi-Cultural Encounter in Medieval Sicily
The Dominican friar Pietro Ranzano in his History of Palermo, written around 1470, discussed a presumed ‘Chaldaic’ (actually, Arabic) inscription discovered in that city. Ranzano's rendition of the inscription is based on a legend that first appears in Sefer Josippon, a Hebrew historical work from the tenth century. Although later studies proved that Ranzano was misled in his interpretation of the text, perhaps by the Jews of Palermo, this episod…
Jewish settlement in Corfu in the aftermath of the expulsions from Spain and southern Italy, 1492–1541
The migration and resettlement of Jewish exiles after 1492 and the successive expulsions of the early sixteenth century was a long and drawn-out process. In fact, the majority of the exiles did not go directly to the Ottoman Empire, and even those who finally reached it as first-generation immigrants did so by staggered waves of migration. The Venetian colonies in the Mediterranean played an important role in this process, both as relatively safe…
The Mass Conversion of 1495 in South Italy and its Precedents
Forced mass conversions were relatively rare in the Middle Ages but they have a central place in both medieval narratives and modern historiography. A distinction should be made between conversions ordered by Christian rulers, and pressure to convert coming from popular elements. Some well-known examples of the first category are the baptism ordered by the Visigothic rulers in Spain and the forced conversion of the Jews in Portugal. The mass conv…
Palermo ebraica
History (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Medieval History and Crusades (6 works) · Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies (6 works) · Sicilian (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works)