Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. The Term Ger and the Concept of Conversion in the Hebrew Bible 26
5. Chapter 2. Ex- Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other 42
6. Chapter 3. Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France 58
7. Chapter 4. Of Purity, Piety, and Plunder: Jewish Apostates and Poverty in Medieval Eu rope 75
8. Chapter 5. “Cleanse Me from My Sin”: The Social and Cultural Vicissitudes of a Converso Family in Fifteenth- Century Castile 89
9. Chapter 6. Converso Paulinism and Residual Jewishness: Conversion from Judaism to Chris tianity as a Theologico- political Problem 112
10. Chapter 7. Return by Any Other Name: Religious Change Among Amsterdam’s New Jews 134
11. Chapter 8. The Persuasive Path: Giulio Morosini’s Derekh Emunah as a Conversion Narrative 156
12. Chapter 9. “Precious Books”: Conversion, Nationality, and the Novel, 1810–2010 182
13. Chapter 10. Between European Judaism and British Protestantism in the Early Nineteenth Century 207
14. Chapter 11. When Life Imitates Art: Shtetl Sociability and Conversion in Imperial Russia 231
15. Chapter 12. Opposition, Integration, and Ambiguity: Toward a History of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s Policies on Conversion to Judaism 250
16. Notes 273
17. Contributors 349
18. Index 353