Christliche und jüdische Minderheitengemeinden im Vergleich. Calvinistische Exulanten und westliche Diaspora der Sephardim im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert

Abstract

Summary After decades of intensive research in early modern religious migration of Christian dissenters we are well informed about its origins, its geographical and numerical dimension, and the social, economic and cultural profile. Equally well covered are its economic, social, religious, cultural and political influences on the different European host societies. The same counts for the structure and functioning of the ecclesiastical and communal institutions of the respective stranger settlements, the culture and everyday life of the communities and their individual members, their families and neighbourhoods. There is also ample research carried out on the Jewish migration from the Iberian Peninsula with its apogee around 1600 and during the first half of the 17th century. Despite the coincidence in time and causation and several obvious similarities, both movements are rarely discussed together. Even research on the Jewish and Christian settlements within the same city, as for instance Hamburg, is ofte...