Research
As a Dr. Henriëtte Boas Fellow, Victor Tiribás researches the Elogios… a la felice memoria de Abraham Nuñez Bernal (1656), a collective book of poetry praising two Jewish martyrs burned by the Spanish Inquisition. Clandestinely printed in Amsterdam, the Elogios gathered twenty-five authors from an underground literary circle spanning the Americas, Europe, and the Mediterranean. By crossing the Elogios with other sources, Victor retraces the poets’ footsteps, uncovers the tragic events that inspired the book, and follows its production and reception across the Sephardic diaspora, untangling truth and fiction in martyrdom narratives. At the Allard Pierson, the research focuses on the Elogios’ materiality and intertextual connections to the Spanish Golden Age, Jewish poetry, and the Classical Tradition. The project will culminate in a publication that presents the first cultural history of the Sephardic diaspora from the margins, revealing the impact of a forgotten group of Jewish dissidents on the Enlightenment.
Fellow
Victor Tiribás is a historian of Early Modern Intellectual and Cultural History, with a research focus on Book History and Religious Dissent in the Sephardic Diaspora. After his Ph.D. at Scuola Normale Superiore, he held fellowships at Harvard, the MFA Boston, and Princeton. His research has appeared in specialized journals such as the Jewish Quarterly Review and the Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis. At the Allard Pierson, Victor will prepare a book manuscript on martyrdom, poetry, and memory in the Sephardic Diaspora.