Aboab da Fonseca, Isaac, 131–32, 156, 173n131
Aboab, Isaac de Matatia, 141–42, 144, 163, 173n131
Aboab, Yitzhak, 31
adolescents, 160–63
adultery, 182–83
Amsterdam’s Jewish community, 179, 180–82, 185–86
apprenticeship, 12, 159–63; “Danielillo,” 161; “Vida de Abraham Pelengrino,” 161–62
Aroquis, Moshe, 35–38
Bar Mitzvah, 153–58
ben Israel, Menasseh (Thesovro dos dinim), 130–32, 134–38, 139–41, 143–46, 148, 158–59, 163–65, 166n1, 182–83, 197, 234, 238–40
books, availability of, 29–30, 63n23, 63n25
breastfeeding, 75–80, 152; ban on remarriage, 75–76, 93n22; refusal by the mother, 80, 87–88, 95n51
children: abandonment, 148, 150–51, 239, 245n53; child marriage, 74–75, 92n17; custody, 78, 81–87, 95n52, 96n53; historical sources, 161–62, 234, 238–39; illegitimacy, 148–51; in the Inquisition, 229; mamzerim, 148, 151; orphans, 162–63; traveling, 82–85, 184
circumcision, 114–16, 120n22, 125n74, 143–46, 235; female, 104–105; gifts, 146; godparents, 146, 170n80; vigil, 116–17, 127n91, 127nn97–98. See also infants
Cohen Pimentel, Abraham, 155–56; “coming to Judaism,”; 108, 114–16, 125n75, 126n85
conformity to customs of local community, 32–34, 36, 46, 47–48; case of the daughter of Moshe Pinto, 35–36, 37–38; in Edirne, 34, 46, 64n37; in Istanbul, 34, 46, 48, 67n68
Cristo de la paciencia . See Nuñez, Andrés
crypto-Judaism, 102–108, 236–37, 243n29; religious expression, 102–103, 112, 230–31
da Fonseca, Abraham, 144, 146–48
death, 111–12
de Leon, Yitzhak, 30–31
de Paredes, Abraham, 234–37, 244n39
de Pinto, Isaac (alias Manuel Alvarez Pinto), 140–41, 152
Derashot, 155–56
economics, 131–32. See also household
education, 139–40, 158–60; of girls and women, 158–59, 174n140, 189–91, 196–97; in the home, 197. See also Talmud Torah
Esther (biblical character), 106–107
family, 191–93; economy, 185–87; fathers, 139–40, 143–46, 159, 163; husband –wife relationships, 191–92; parent–child relationships, 45–46, 77–78, 87, 152, 191; paterfamilias, 139; western Sephardi, 133–34
First Communion, 153
Franco Mendes, David, 146, 157
HaLevi, Eliyahu, 59
Hevrot, 194–95
household, 138–39, 183–85, 192; classical, 132, 139; ownership, 163–65. See also economics; family
husbands, 136–37. See also family
Iberian exiles, 180, 201, 233–34; cultural pride, 32, 35–38, 63n31, 64n41; emotional effects of expulsion, 28–30, 36, 70, 90n2; in the Ottoman Empire, 23, 33–34, 36–37, 47–48, 60, 87; returning to Iberia, 113–14, 237; scope of expulsion, 32
Ibn Habib, Yaakov, 26–35, 38, 59, 64n39
Ibn Yaish, Avraham, 39–46, 49, 56–58, 65n47
Inés of Herrera, 228–29
infants: mortality, 87, 92n16; naming in the synagogue, 146–48; redemption of the first-born, 148; swaddling, 148–49; vigils 142–43, 240. See also circumcision
inheritance, 193
Inquisition, 226–30, 242n7; inquisitorial formulas, 229–31, 235–36
Jamila, the case of, 48–55; Don Shemuel, 50, 67n74
judeoconversos. See New Christians
kidushin and nisuin, 24, 27–28, 55, 59–60, 62n14. See also marriage; sivlonot
León Jaramillo, Duarte de, 104–105, 119n21
marriage: age at marriage, 135–36; in countries of persecution, 110–11; customs among Sephardim and Romaniots, 27–28, 33–34, 40, 42, 46, 59–60; endogamy, 111, 136, 229–30; examples, 43–44, 48–49; involvement of parents/community, 51, 52–53, 55, 67n76, 135–36; levirate marriage, 73–74, 92n13; of mixed religions, 229–31; motivations, 134–35; newlyweds, 184; polygamy, 88. See also engagement; kidushin and nisuin; sivlonot
matzah, 118n6
Medina Chamis, Rachel, 184, 192–93
Mizrahi, Eliyahu, 26–27, 35, 39, 45–46, 48–50, 56, 58–59, 62n9, 76
Moriscos, 241n3
nedunyah. See dowry
New Christians (judeoconversos), 226–34.; See also crypto-Judaism
New Jews, 225, 233–34, 237–38, 244n47; cultural mixing, 237–39; inward acculturation, 234–41
nisuin. See kidushin and nisuin
Nuñez, Andrés, 228–29
Pacheco de León, Juan (alias Salomón Machorro), 108–109, 121n38
paterfamilias. See Family
Pereyra, Abraham (The Certainty of the Path), 238
Peyrehorade, 234–35, 236–38, 244n47
Pinta, Ester, 221n242
pregnancy and birth, 71–75, 140–42; community involvement, 73–74; death in childbirth, 140–41; folk beliefs, 72–73, 140; on Shabbat, 140–41; stillborns, 141–42
Purim, 106
purity, 105–106. See also crypto-Judaism
Querido, Aharon, 146–47
religiosity, 118n3
Romaniots, 23–24, 34–35, 40–41
Sarah (alias Eleonora Nunez), 103
Senior, Gracia, 180, 185, 194–95
sivlonot, 24, 27–28, 33, 43–45, 48, 51–52, 58–60; as proof of kidushin, 27–28, 30–31, 33, 36–37, 39–40, 43–48, 56–59, 67n69. See also engagement; marriage
swearing, 154
synagogue, 108–110; architecture, 109; children, 152–55; women, 199
Talmud Torah, 110, 158–59. See also education
Terumat haDeshen, 29–30
Thesovro dos dinim. See ben Israel, Menasseh
Tosafot, 63n22
wet nurses, 76–77, 88, 93n26, 94n31, 152
wives, 42–43, 45, 49–50, 60–61, 137–38, 185; abandoned, 181–82; wife-beating, 137, 192. See also family; women
women: in Amsterdam, 177–83, 189, 199–201; Ashkenazi, 177, 190, 201n6; in childbirth, 71–72; criminals/prostitutes, 183, 188–89; divorced/widowed, 78–80, 180, 185; feminine virtue, 39, 41–42, 45, 199; historical sources, 71, 178–80, 193; independence, 185; as rabbis/religious teachers, 103–104, 230–32; religious involvement/exclusion, 111–13, 196–200; saying kaddish, 112–13; social activities, 195–96; wealthy/powerful, 186, 192–94; working, 186–88
Yeshivot, 118n9