Jewish Symbols and Secrets A Fifteenth Century Spanish Carpet 1st Edition by Anton Felton ISBN ‎ 978-0853038344 0853038341

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ISBN 10:   0853038341

ISBN 13: 978-0853038344

Author: Anton Felton

In the hundred years that led up to expulsion in 1492, hundreds of thousands of Spanish Jews converted publically – but not privately – to Christianity. They left some clues to their compelling and dangerous secret lives, revealed through personal artifacts. This book examines one such artifact – the brilliant 15th-century Vizcaya carpet that has bedazzled experts and visitors alike. It becomes clear through this original study of the private lives of the noble family who commissioned the carpet, as well as the weavers who wove it, that neither group were Christians. They were secret Jews, also known as conversos. The symbols in the carpet – with their hidden messages of Judaism and Kabbalah – are analyzed in the book, along with their alternative meanings in medieval Christian and Islamic culture. Jewish Symbols and Secrets also traces the history of the Star of David in Judaism, from Biblical times to 1600 C.E. The hitherto neglected role of textiles in Jewish culture is uncovered, as is the ancient history of the Sephardi weavers of Spain and the Mediterranean, from Biblical to Islamic times. Further insights are gained in the oft-debated question as to the total number of Jews who converted to Christianity. In understanding the worlds and the guarded secret lives of the people who came together to create this carpet, we now see it as an extraordinary and beautifully encoded statement of Jewish faith and survival.

Table of contents: 

PART 1. BACKGROUND HISTORIES

1. Weaving in Spain and Murcia

2. The Jews of Spain

3. The Role of Carpets in Jewish Culture

4. The Jewish Weavers of Spain and North Africa

PART 2. THE CARPETS

5. The Vizcaya Carpet

6. The Spanish Synagogue Carpet

PART 3. THETURN OF EVENTS

7. The Enriquez

8. 1391-1492: Action and Reaction

9. Where, and by whom, was the Vizcaya Carpet Woven?

10. ‘For Things Are Never What They Seem’

PART 4. THE SYMBOLS

11. Symbols

12. The Star of David

13. The Menorah and The Hamsa (The Hand)

14. Pomegranates and Walnuts

15. Birds

16. Sheep

17. Torah Arks

18. Other Symbols, Numerology and Orant Figures

PART 5. SUMMING UP

19. Conclusion

20. Postscript

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