TCCECJ (263689)

  https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/263689

  FP7 (2007-2013)

  Theologies of conversion to Christianity in early modern east-central Europan Judaism

  ERC Starting Grant - The study of the human past (ERC-SG-SH6)

  modern history  ·  judaism  ·  christianity

  2011-02-01 Start Date (YY-MM-DD)

  2016-01-31 End Date (YY-MM-DD)

  € 1,045,200 Total Cost

  Description

This project endeavors to recalibrate the accepted understanding of the Jewish-Christian interchange in the early modern East-Central Europe in light of an analysis of Jewish theological elaborations of conversion to Christianity. From the mid-seventeenth century onwards conversion to Christianity became one of the central intellectual (and not merely practical) concerns of Judaism. By attempting to reconstruct the theological conceptualizations of conversions (and not – as did other scholars – biographies of the converts), I shall challenge the prevailing scholarly paradigm of the existence of clear and impenetrable boundaries between Judaism and Christianity. My project seeks to systematically discuss this issue on the basis of an analysis of a large amount of previously unknown primary sources, thereby shedding significant new light on the Jewish Christian relations in Central Europe in the early modern period.

  Complicit Organisations

1 Israeli organisation participates in TCCECJ.