Christians Becoming Jews in Muslim Lands: Jewish Perceptions of Race, Nation, and Communal Boundaries in the Late Medieval Mediterranean

Saturday, January 6, 2018: 2:14 PM
Virginia Suite A (Marriott Wardman Park)
Jonathan S. Ray, Georgetown University
Jonathan Ray, in “Christians Becoming Jews in Muslim Lands: Jewish Perceptions of Race, Nation and Communal Boundaries in the Late Medieval Mediterranean,” nuances contemporary notions of race, nation and community by studying conversos who moved from Spain to Islamic lands and reconverted to Judaism.
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