Spanish, Portuguese, and Neo-Latin Poetry Written and/or Published by Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Sephardim from Hamburg and Frankfurt (1)

Abstract

This is the first of a two-part study the intention of which is to reproduce and evaluate Spanish, Portuguese, and Neo-Latin poetry written by 17th and 18th- century Hamburg-based Sephardim. The general conclusion is that considered in isolation these poems are, at best, circumstancial and of limited creative significance, but when considered as part of a pan-European literary phenomenon they represent an attempt to create a new literary discourse.