2019/01/17 by Einat Davidi · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Early Modern Spanish Literature #Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1163/9789004392489_020
openalex publication_date 2019/01/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Since the second decade of the twentieth century, we have witnessed increasing interest in Baroque writing. However, apart from a few mentions, the concept of Baroque has hardly been applied to the field of Jewish writing, and even less so to the field of Hebrew writing. In this essay, I would like to portray the image of a Jewish Baroque writer by focusing on Jos Penso de la Vega,1 who sophisticatedly represented the Baroque spirit and style in his work. After explicating the concept "Baroque," I will draw a short biobibliography of the author, and then will discuss the Baroque characteristics of three different texts by him. I will conclude by making brief remarks about the prima facie difficulty in characterizing a Jewish writer as a Baroque writer.