Resumen de Converso spirituality during the seventeenth century according to Rabbi Saul Levi Mortera
The present study explores depictions of converso spirituality in two polemical works written around 1650 by Saul Levi Mortera. As the chief rabbi of Amsterdam, Mortera oversaw the rejudaization of conversos who fled to the city from the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisitions.
In order to persuade conversos to abandon crypto-Judaism, Mortera wrote polemical works in which he asserted the superiority of rabbinic Judaism. However, Mortera’s works reveal that some conversos were reluctant to undergo rejudaization because of an enduring attachment to crypto-Judaism.
