Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own and speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life.
Theodor Dunkelgrun is Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities and an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. Pawel Maciejko is Associate Professor of History and the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University.
"A formidable collection of essays, Bastards and Believers boasts an array of original, instructive, and thoughtful contributions on the subjects of conversion and converts, both actual historical personages and literary constructions, that will render it valuable to numerous scholarly conversations." (Jeremy Cohen, Tel Aviv University)
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