Cordeiros para um sacrifício ao Deus de Israel: aspectos do Judaísmo alagoano entre os anos de 1730-1735 na Villa de Penedo

Abstract

Since his process of occupation, the territory belonging to conquest portuguese in América ever owned on evident number of new christians acting in miscellaneous areas of social layers. Same living bellow the context of “Clandestinity of Faith”, very opted, still that in front of danger, preserve yourself according this cultural standards that inherited of their ancestors. This present work has as principal goal analyze the jewish presence in Villa de Penedo between the years of 1730 to 1735. In synthesis, the objective of this work, with this research, is to present basics aspects that, until now, were not raised, this is, problematized, where it concerns the Hebrew presence in territory of Alagoas – taking in consideration everything that has ever been produced for the territory inserted in proposed theme and starting from presupposition of certain specifities of demography –. Like this, even don’t being one unpublished theme, we intend review it in order to deepen the formation of the historiography that, until now, don’t has deserved importance in that concerns the become regionally aware.