Construire l’identité sur l’oubli : conversion médiévale et sauvetage contemporain des enfants juifs

As a procedure of elimination through integration, forced conversions were a way to manipulate memory. With respect to the canonical prohibition of forced baptisms, the children, unable to exercise their free will, represented a borderline case. Unlike adults, whose will and memory would oppose conv...

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Main Author: Elsa Marmursztejn
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Civilisations et Littératures d’Espagne et d’Amérique du Moyen Âge aux Lumières (CLEA) - Paris Sorbonne 2021-02-01
Series:E-Spania
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/e-spania/38047
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description As a procedure of elimination through integration, forced conversions were a way to manipulate memory. With respect to the canonical prohibition of forced baptisms, the children, unable to exercise their free will, represented a borderline case. Unlike adults, whose will and memory would oppose conversion, they could become true believers, provided they were separated from their parents and raised as Christians. Therefore, the thirteenth and fourteenth-centuries theological discussions focussed on the lawfulness of kidnapping. The relationship between separation and salvation endured, as evidenced in the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. This situation gave rise to narratives where forgetfulness was associated with the persistence of traces, and which contradicted the expected success of the building of identity upon forgetfulness.
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Construire l’identité sur l’oubli : conversion médiévale et sauvetage contemporain des enfants juifs
E-Spania
education
identity
Middle Ages
Jews
memory
forced baptisms
title Construire l’identité sur l’oubli : conversion médiévale et sauvetage contemporain des enfants juifs
title_full Construire l’identité sur l’oubli : conversion médiévale et sauvetage contemporain des enfants juifs
title_fullStr Construire l’identité sur l’oubli : conversion médiévale et sauvetage contemporain des enfants juifs
title_full_unstemmed Construire l’identité sur l’oubli : conversion médiévale et sauvetage contemporain des enfants juifs
title_short Construire l’identité sur l’oubli : conversion médiévale et sauvetage contemporain des enfants juifs
title_sort construire l identite sur l oubli conversion medievale et sauvetage contemporain des enfants juifs
topic education
identity
Middle Ages
Jews
memory
forced baptisms
url https://journals.openedition.org/e-spania/38047
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