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Mobility of people, mobility of assets: Marriage contracts and wills of the Portuguese Nation of Amsterdam in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Year: 2024

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Among the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam, as in other socio‑religious communities, marriage and the proximity of death were central events determining the mobility of goods, but also the strategies used to consolidate or increase social standing. Marriage contracts and wills reveal intentions to achieve social mobility, but also to benefit a family’s geographical spread. Until very late on, wills continued privileging the kinship criterion over the religious criterion, certainly concerning the New Christian kin in Portugal. In fact, wills were fundamental instruments for pressurising conversos to migrate and for integrating Portuguese Jewish communities in the diaspora.

Parent work: More than Homesickness: Minorities and the Transference of Goods in the Mediterranean (1492–1956)

DOI: 10.4000/11ty8

Author: José Alberto Tavim

Institution: Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia

Language: English

Topic: Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Funder: European Cooperation in Science and Technology

OpenAlex ID: W4399714296

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