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Verbovszky, Joseph. "Leopold von Mildenstein and the Jewish Question." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1365174634.
Full textMufti, Aamir Rashid. "Enlightenment in the colony the Jewish question and dilemmas in postcolonial modernity /." Full text available online (restricted access), 1998. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Mufti.pdf.
Full textCheyette, Bryan. "An overwhelming question : Jewish stereotyping in English fiction and society, 1875-1914." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1986. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2948/.
Full textCheyette, Bryan H. "An overwhelming question Jewish stereotyping in English fiction and society, 1875-1914 /." Online version, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.292696.
Full textMeyer, Maisie J. "The Sephardi Jewish community of Shanghai 1845-1939 and the question of identity." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284296.
Full textFulwider, Chad Russell. "Karl Kraus and the Jewish question: assimilation, language, and persecution in Vienna, 1874-1936." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3426.
Full textScaliter, Bret Logan. "Demystifying "On the Jewish question": A rhetorical and linguistic analysis of Karl Marx's essay." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1101.
Full textAbraham, Gary A. "Max Weber and the Jewish question : a study of the social outlook of his sociology /." Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois press, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb356063309.
Full textMayse, Evan. "Beyond the Letters: The Question of Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Baer of Mezritch." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463960.
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Porges, Reingard. "Theodor Wolff, the Writer in Exile 1933-1943." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1515.
Full textPorges, Reingard. "Theodor Wolff, the Writer in Exile 1933-1943." University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1515.
Full textAbstract This study examines the effect of exile on Theodor Wolff’s writings from 1933 to 1943. Wolff, a highly assimilated German Jew and renowned journalist and editor-in-chief of the ‘Berliner Tageblatt’ from 1906-1933, was one of the most influential cultural and liberal political commentators during World War I and the Weimar Republic. His political life and influence has been extensively researched, whereas his life in exile has not been explored. Enforced sudden exile in 1933 represented a turning point in Wolff’s life. Following the temporal sequence of Wolff’s ten years in exile, this study is divided into four chapters, starting with the early exile years from 1933 to 1936, followed by the immediate pre World War II period. The third chapter covers the German invasion and occupation of France in 1940. The last chapter sheds light on the two final years from 1942 to 1943. These four periods reflect his exile experience and gradual decline in living conditions, mood, and fundamental changes in his approach to writing. In exile Wolff devotes his time and effort to historical accounts and fiction – a difficult genre for a publicist and journalistic writer. He also embarks on autobiographical writings and during his final years in exile deals with the Jewish catastrophe unfolding in Nazi controlled Europe, raising issues concerning the so called ‘Jewish Problem’. This study draws attention to the effect exile had on an important German- Jewish writer, who in 1943 fell victim to the Holocaust. Wolff’s works, especially his exile writings survived the war and remain relevant today. The findings of this research provide some insight into a turbulent period in German and European history that drastically changed many lives. It also makes a significant contribution to the study of Theodor Wolff and to exile studies in general.
Helvig, Karl R. "Jewish backgrounds to Jesus' educational methods parables, "question and answer," and physical location as they appear in Matthew 16-18 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p090-0359.
Full textUddin, Mohan. "Paul and the Jews : causal agency in unbelief and the question of coherence (with special reference to 2 Corinthians 3-4 3-4 and Romans 9-11)." Thesis, London School of Theology, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388751.
Full textSayer, Holly. "Arthur Schnitzler and his critics : a question of Jewish identity : a study of Schnitzler's critical reception in Vienna 1890-1931 as documented in his press cuttings collection." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439816.
Full textMasó, Monclús Anna. "Acció i teoria política en Hannah Arendt: nocions presents en les obres de joventut sobre Agustí i Rahel." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667093.
Full textThe main objective of this research consists of detecting and bringing to light the question about whether there was a continuity in the thinking of Hannah Arendt or, on the contrary, there was a break or an abandonment between the ideas and experiences of her youth and her mature thinking. This topic is shown at the subtitle, which mentions the main actors of two Arendt works: Love and Augustine (1929) and Rahel Varnhagen, the Life of a Jewess (1958). Although the latter work was published for the first time twenty years later, it was written by Arendt before 1933, except for the two last chapters (1938), so both books were youth works. Augustine was related to Arendt’s academic studies and, moreover, to German Existenz Philosophy, which she analyzed and compared with French Existentialism. However, she cannot be considered an existentialist. Rahel Levin (Varnhagen) was related to Arendt’s Jewish identity, to her woman’s condition or, as she said, “feminini generis”, and to the German romanticism. Those works and the problems outlined in them are contrasted with the last work The Life of the Mind in which Arendt reviews, especially in the book devoted to Willing, Augustine’s philosophy from a new perspective. The research shows how the accent on politics increases until Arendt reaches the idea that it is necessary to save the public realm since political life is everywhere under siege because of the emergence of “society” and “equality”: the former was the most important phenomena while the latter was the main social notion of Modern Age. Regarding this matter, the research discusses Arendt’s analysis of Marxism in Karl Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought and the categories of “labor, work and action” in her main work The Human Condition. Another objective of this research is to clarify Arendt’s method. It has been said that Arendt was an anti-systematic thinker who posed paradoxical or contradictory questions. Some of the authors that have been useful to analyze this problem are Kant, Nietzsche, Benjamin and Adorno.
Engel, Amir. "Elisabeth Gallas: »Das Leichenhaus der Bücher«. Kulturrestitution und jüdisches Geschichtsdenken nach 1945." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2014. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35026.
Full textPérez, i. Ventayol Joan. "Els debats sobre la qüestió jueva a Catalunya (1917-1939). La construcció ideològica del discurs sobre el poble jueu, el sionisme i l’antisemitisme en el període d’entreguerres." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/377448.
Full textThe research aims to study a specific element of the contemporary reprise of the Catalan Judaism: the discourse and the opinions uttered in Catalonia about everything related to the Jewish question between 1917 and 1939. That is, to identify the Catalan tale, arguments and opinions about the Jewish world in the interwar period. Therefore, it is not an examination of the communities of the first half of the 20th century, but an analysis of the discourse generated on different aspects related to the Jews. And, thanks to this analysis, to be able to establish the quality and the use of what was explained in the intellectual and journalistic circles of the time about ideas, personages, religion, culture, facts or conflicts of Jewish nature. Four ideological and political sectors, representative of the society of those years, have been chosen as a basis for the study: the catholic reformist group, the ultra-catholic fundamentalist, the left-winged Catalan nationalist, and the conservative Catalan nationalist. Thus, it has to be possible to determine how these sectors responded to the debate on the Jews, to explain their positions and possible influences, and to assess whether the projected image of the Jews was conditioned by ideological or political rivalry.
Guillaume, Damien. "Les débuts de l'"agitation antisémitique" en France dans une perspective européenne : contribution à l'histoire de l'antisémitisme." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0198.
Full textThe beginnings of the "anti-Semitic" agitation in France in the 1880s – not only with the publication of Edouard Drumont's La France juive in 1886 but even earlier in the same decade – have been explained above all by national factors in the historiography. Yet, they coincided with various concerns about the "Jewish question" on a European scale, concerns to which the first French anti-Semites were extensively referring in their texts.This PhD thesis explores (in depth) the French reception of a European phenomenon during the span of a few exceptional years (approximately 1878 to 1884). By focusing on the European context this study reveals the gradual emergence, throughout the nineteenth century, of a "Jewish question" considered by the West of the continent as typically Eastern European. As such, the turning point of the 1880s was not only the moment when, first in Germany and then in other countries, this supposedly new form of anti-Jewish hostility arose, which was called by its actors itself "anti-Semitic". These years were also – especially with the controversies over the Jews of Romania at the Congress of Berlin and the international echo given to the wave of pogroms of 1881-1882 in Russia – a crucial step in the confrontation between two hemispheres, both geographical and thematic, of the "Jewish question."Thus put in context, the beginnings of anti-Semitic agitation in France were not limited to the emergence of a particularly radical form of anti-Jewish hostility, initiated by some more or less known polemists or rather marginal groups. These beginnings also confirmed the existence of profoundly equivocal attitudes among proponents of a liberal approach to the "Jewish question," that is to say, those who were most likely to defend the Jews against the attacks of their enemies
安里, 石黑(大岩根), 石黑 安里, 大岩根 安里, and Anri Ishiguro-Oiwane. "H・ソルドのシオニズム観と「ハダッサ」における展開 : アメリカ・ユダヤ人女性シオニストとしての「ユダヤ的伝統」の再解釈." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13020865/?lang=0, 2016. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13020865/?lang=0.
Full textLeonhard, Clemens. "The Jewish Pesach and the origins of the Christian Easter open questions in current research." Berlin New York de Gruyter, 2005. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2848390&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textApplegate, Jesse. "A question of origins the application of ethnoracial categories to Jews and Christians in Contra Celsum /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1432.
Full textSkiles, William Stewart. "Preaching to Nazi Germany| The Confessing Church on National Socialism, the Jews, and the Question of Opposition." Thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10009352.
Full textThis dissertation examines sermons delivered by Confessing Church pastors in the Nazi dictatorship. The approach of most historians has focused on the history of the Christian institutions, its leaders, and its persecution by the Nazi regime, leaving the most elemental task of the pastor ? that is, preaching ? largely unexamined. The question left unaddressed is how well did Confessing pastors fare in articulating their views of the Nazi regime and the persecution of the Jews through their sermons? To answer this question, I analyzed 910 sermons by Confessing Church pastors, all delivered or disseminated between 1933 and the end of World War II in Europe. I argue that new trends in preaching popular among Confessing Church pastors discouraged deviation from the biblical text in sermons, and thus one result was few criticisms concerning German politics and society. Nevertheless, a minority of pastors criticized the Nazi regime and its leaders for their racial ideology and claims of ?Aryan? superiority, and also for unjust persecutions against Christians. They condemned Nazism as a morally corrupt ideology in contradiction to Christianity. Further, I argue that these sermons provide mixed messages about Jews and Judaism. While on the one hand, the sermons express admiration for Judaism as a foundation for Christianity and Jews as spiritual cousins; on the other hand, the sermons express religious prejudice in the form of anti-Judaic tropes that corroborated the Nazi ideology that portrayed Jews and Judaism as inferior. In the final section of the dissertation I explore the ministries of German pastors of Jewish descent and argue that they not only experienced persecution from the Nazi state, but also from their own congregations. Nevertheless, the themes of their sermons are consistent with those found in those of their colleagues. My research demonstrates that the German churches were in fact places to offer criticism of the Nazi regime, which was often veiled through biblical imagery and metaphor. Yet the messages reveal criticism from a position of obedience and subservience to the state, and at the same time the expose a confused ambiguity about the Jews and Judaism and their relation to Christians in Nazi Germany.
Sherwood, Daniel A. "Civic Struggles| Jews, Blacks, and the Question of Inclusion at The City College of New York, 1930-1975." Thesis, The New School, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3707753.
Full textThis dissertation seeks to explain why large segments of the Jewish community, after working with blacks for decades, often quite radically towards expanding the boundaries of citizenship at City College, rejected the legitimacy of the 1970 Open Admissions policy? While succeeding in radically transforming the structure of City College and CUNY more broadly, the Black and Puerto Rican Student Community's late 1960’s political mobilization failed as an act of citizenship because its claims went broadly unrecognized. Rather than being remembered as political action that expanded the structure and content of citizenship, the Open Admissions crisis and policy are remembered as having destroyed a once great college. The black and Puerto Rican students who claimed an equal right to higher education were seen as unworthy of the forms of inclusion they demanded, and the radical democracy of Open Admissions was short lived, being decisively reformed in the mid 70’s in spite of what subsequent research has shown to be remarkable success in educating thousands who previously had no hope of pursuing a college degree. This dissertation places this question in historical context in three ways.
First, it historicizes the political culture at City College showing it to be an important incubator and index of the changing political imaginaries of the long civil rights movement by analyzing the shifting and evolving publics on the college’s campus, tracing the rise and fall of different political imaginaries. Significantly, the shifting political imaginaries across time at City College sustained different kinds of ethical claims. For instance, in the period from the 1930 to 1950, Jewish and black City College students tended to recognize each other as suffering from parallel forms of systemic racism within U.S. society. Understanding each other to be similarly excluded from a social system that benefitted a largely white-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant elite, enabled Jewish and black City College students to position themselves and each other as the normative subjects of American democracy. However, in the 1960’s, political imaginaries at City College had come to be anchored in more individualistic idioms, and ethical claims tended to be made within individualistic terms. Within such a context, when the BPRSC revived radically democratic idioms of political claims making, they tended to be understood by many whites as pathologically illiberal.
Second, it historicizes the ways in which City College constructed “the meritorious student” by analyzing the social, political and institutional forces that drove the college to continuously reformulate its admissions practices across its entire history. It shows that while many actors during the Open Admissions crisis invested City College’s definitions of merit with sacred academic legitimacy, they were in fact rarely crafted for academic reasons or according to a purely academic logic. Regardless, many ignored the fact the admissions standards were arbitrarily based, instead believing such standards were the legitimate marker of academic ability and worthiness. By examining the institutional construction of the “meritorious” student the dissertation shows the production of educational citizenship from above while also revealing how different actors and their standpoints were simultaneously constructed by how they were positioned by this institutional process.
Finally, the dissertation examines two significant historical events of student protest, the Knickerbocker-Davis Affair of the late 1940's and the Open Admissions Crisis of the late 1960's. In these events, City College students challenged the content of “educational citizenship.” These events were embedded in the shifting political culture at City College and were affected by the historically changing ways different groups, especially Jews and blacks, were positioned by the structure of educational citizenship.
While Jews had passed into whiteness by the late 1960’s in the U.S, there was no objective reason for many to claim the privileges of whiteness by rejecting a universal policy such as Open Admissions. Yet, many Jews interpreted Open Admissions as against their personal and group interests, and rejected the ethical claim to equality made by the BPRSC. By placing the Open Admissions crisis in deep historical and institutional context, and comparing the 1969 student mobilization to earlier student actions, the dissertation shows how actors sorted different political, institutional and symbolic currents to interpret their interests and construct their identities and lines of action.
Marques, Karina Carvalho de Matos. "De l'écriture personnelle à l'écriture de l'histoire : questions d'identité dans l'oeuvre d'Ilse Losa et de Samuel Rawet." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030103.
Full textOur compared study deals with the literary work of Ilse Losa (1913-2006), a German exiled in Portugal, and Samuel Rawet (1929-1984), a Polish immigrant in Brazil, which have adopted Portuguese as writing language. Having arrived in these lusophone countries a few years before the declaration of the Second World War, both share a jewish origin which is expressed in their characters in the form of conflicts between memory and forgetfulness, communitarianism and integration, tradition and cultural performativity. Moreover, their conditions of women and homosexual acted as an inspiration for the construction of a work opposing gender duality in a context of oppression in these host countries : The Salazarist New State (1933-1974) and the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). This way, through their personal writings in which the jewish identity and the gender identity are key elements, we can consider the exclusion in a broader way. These authors give us a picture of the brazilian and portuguese societies between the end of the 30’s and beginning of the 80’s, highlighting the power relations between elites and masses. During a period in which the national identity is being built on the basis of the myth of the great empire in Portugal and of multiculturalism in Brazil, Ilse Losa and Samuel Rawet show that the nation is always a narrative
RIcottilli, Sofia <1979>. "‘Others have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis’ : identity and humour in Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler question' and Paul Murray's 'An evening of long goodbyes'." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6521.
Full textFurci, Guido. "L'héritage nu. Mises en fiction du "témoin historique". Primo Levi - Aharon Appelfeld - Philip Roth." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA077.
Full textMy doctoral thesis explores the relationship between literature and historical witnessing. By focusing on the works of Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, and Philip Roth (authors who relate in very different ways the trauma of the Holocaust), my research aims at investigating the enmeshment of aesthetic and epistemological issues. My comparative exploration of these authors is motivated by and allows for a conceptual layering of the problem along three distinct research axes : (1) each author maintains a different degree of autobiographical involvement with the genocidal facts he evokes, ranging from maximum directness (Levi) to an oblique post hoc distance (Roth) ; (2) each author thematizes the problem by framing fictional situations in which characters have to cope with the plastic tension of narrative recollection ; (3) there is a twofold factual link between the three authors consisting in (a) explicit or covert intertextual quotations (e.g. Levi and Appelfeld become characters in Roth’s "Operation Shylock") and, more significantly, (b) an under-investigated circular correspondence in which each of them discusses at length the gains and losses of (literary) historical witnessing. The core of my project, therefore, is grounded in the long-distance conversation on the reworking of memories between Aharon Appelfeld, Philip Roth and Primo Levi – a three-way conversation that perforce ceased with Levi’s death in 1987
Brown, Jeffrey J. D. "Class struggle, nationality and religion : the Soviet Jewish question, 1917-1936." 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/16992.
Full textLiao, Chien-Yi, and 廖健苡. "The question of Jewish identity in Sodome et Gomorrhe of Marcel Proust." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87330909443461536836.
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Does “Jew” exist? As we know the identity is a creation by others. What constitute the “Jewishness”? For Sartre, “the Jew is the man whom other men take to be a Jew.” It seems that the Jewish identity is nothing more than an imagination by those who are anti-Semite. The persecutions of the Jewish people in the 20th century are still unknown to us. The reasons for their being persecuted differ from those in the ancient times, i.e. religious causes. As the discourses of nationalism and scientism change, the discourses of anti-Semite are also changed. In Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the Jewish elements appear constantly. In the time of Proust, the famous Dreyfus Affair occurred. Given the fact that Proust is a half-Jew, it is very interesting to see how the narrator described the Jews in the novel. Are the representations of the narrator different from the official discourses? Through the text, we can observe and analyze how did the Jewish identity be represented. Because all kinds of narrations could be considered as an affirmation of identity.
"For One's Brothers: Daniil Avraamovich Khvol'son and the "Jewish Question" in Russia." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25008.
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Du, Toit Karen S. "The Jewish question and Verwoerd: editorship of the die Transvaler 1937-1948." Thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/29313.
Full textThe 1930s and 40s marked a tumultuous political period in South Africa. Central political players and their respective parties, whether government, opposition, extra-parliamentary or other all jostled for power. Socio-economic and political events locally and on a global scale merged with religionationalistic ideology to mobilise Afrikaners into a collective and to form a maelstrom within which antisemitism flared up in the country. This rise of antisemitism created a serious ‘Jewish Question’ in South Africa and is the entry point for this research paper which takes a closer look at the reasons for the content of the opinion piece that Verwoerd, as editor of this Nationalist Party paper, penned in the first edition of Die Transvaler in October 1937, namely the ‘Nationalist viewpoint on the Jewish Question: the solution’ which effectively championed economic antisemitism. It also looks more in depth at the media libel case between Verwoerd and The Star and finds that there were multiple instances of falsification of news in the court case that found Verwoerd guilty of promoting Nazi propaganda and making his paper a tool for the Nazis during the Second World War. The outcome of this research directly links Dr. H.F. Verwoerd’s negative portrayal of the Jewish Question in Die Transvaler with the intent to mobilise Afrikaner Nationalism in the lead up to the 1948 elections.
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Fischman, Dennis K. "Political discourse in exile: Karl Marx and the Jewish question of our times." 1988. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8822656.
Full textEhrenreich, Eric. "Anti-semitism as applied biology Nazi ideology, racial science and the "Jewish Question" /." 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/41298278.html.
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Lewis, Yitzhak Meir. "Writing the Margin: Rabbi Nachman of Braslav, Jorge Luis Borges and the Question of Jewish Writing." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D88052KV.
Full textMoravská, Dorota Tabitha. "Sekuritizácia "židovskej otázky" na Slovensku v letech 1945-1948." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-341696.
Full text"Anticlerical alliances: Jews and the Church question in Germany and France, 1783--1905." THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3322667.
Full textMendes, Paulo. "O Marquês de Pombal e o perdão aos judeus : Inquisição, legislação e solução final da questão do perdão aos judeus com o novo enquadramento jurídico pombalino." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/4059.
Full textO presente trabalho tem como principal objectivo tratar da questão do perdão aos judeus no contexto pombalino. Desde a formação da nacionalidade portuguesa há sinais da presença dos judeus. No entanto, a trajetória desta minoria em Portugal nem sempre foi pacífica. Na época de D. Manuel I os judeus conversos ao cristianismo foram chamados de cristãos-novos, numa clara demonstração de desigualdade com os demais cristãos. Com a implantação da Inquisição em Portugal, os cristãos-novos de origem judaíca passaram a ser alvo prioritário das perseguições, inquirições, acusações e condenações. A trajetória dos critãos-novos em Portugal foi marcada por marchas e contramarchas dos monarcas portugueses e dos pontífices na concessão ou não dos perdões. No contexto de perseguição e ódio da Inquisição em Portugal aparece a figura do padre António Vieira que se posicionou em defesa dos judeus e dos cristãos-novos, além de propor a reestruração da Inquisição portuguesa. Como ponto de chegada nuclear do presente trabalho tratamos do período pombalino, com destaque para os vários diplomas promulgados por D. José. Estes diplomas que beneficiaram os cristãos-novos traziam um novo enquadramento jurídico decorrente da promulgação da Lei da Boa Razão, parte integrante da formação do direito português moderno.
This paper has as main objective address the issue of the forgiveness to the Jews in the Pombal’s context. Since the formation of the Portuguese nationality there have been signs of the presence of the Jews. However, the trajectory of this minority in Portugal was not always peaceful. At the time of D. Manuel I, the converted Jews to Christianity were called New Christians, a clear demonstration of inequality with other Christians. With the implantation of the Inquisition in Portugal, the New Christians with Jewish background became the main target of persecution, inquests, indictments and convictions. The trajectory of the New Christians in Portugal was marked by marches and counter-marches of the Portuguese monarchs and popes in the granting of forgiveness or not. In the context of persecution and hatred of the Inquisition in Portugal comes the figure of Father Antonio Vieira that stood in defense of the Jews and the New Christians, in addition to propose the restructuring of the Portuguese Inquisition. As the final goal of this paper we are dealing with the Pombal’s era, with emphasis on the several documents enacted by D. Joseph. These documents which benefited the New Christians brought a new legal framework arising from the promulgation of the Law of Good Reason, an important part of the modern Portuguese law.