Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora

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Index 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 Ashkenazim, 77, 225–26 Bar Mitzvah, 153–58 Baruch, Gracia, 188–89, 199 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 charity, 194–95, 198 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 Curiel, Sara, 141–42, 151 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 dowry (nedunyah), 33–34, 43 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 engagement, 39–43, 48–50, 53 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, 157 278 Index Hacker, Joseph, 64nn39–40 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 Marranism, 101, 104, 106–107 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...