Author: Jane S. Gerber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029115744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Book Description
The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile, their tragedy of expulsion marked the end of one critical phase of their history and the beginning of another. Indeed, in defiance of all logic and expectation, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain became an occasion for renewed creativity. Nor have five hundred years of wandering extinguished the identity of the Sephardic Jews, or diminished the proud memory of the dazzling civilization, which they created on Spanish soil. This book is intended to serve as an introduction and scholarly guide to that history.
Author: Joseph Pérez
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252031415
Category : Civilisation médiévale
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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A concise retelling of the Sephardic Jews' grim story
Author: Haim Beinart
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Beinart's detailed magnum opus focuses on the practicalities of the expulsion and its consequences, both for those expelled and those remaining behind. Analysis of hundreds of archival documents enables him to take history out of the realm of abstraction and give it concrete reality, and in so doing he also sheds much light on Jewish life in Spain before the expulsion.
Author: Jonathan S. Ray
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814729118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Resum: "Medieval inheritance -- The long road into exile -- An age of perpetual migration -- Community and control in the Sephardic diaspora -- Families, networks, and the challenge of social organization -- Rabbinic and popular Judaism in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean -- Imagining Sepharad."
Author: Moshe Lazar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 356
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"...the essays brought together in this volume ... were developed from conference papers presented at an international symposium entitled "The Jews of Spain and the Expulsion of 1492" held at the University of Southern California in April 1992" -- from p. xi.
Author: David Raphael
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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A collection of 25 chronicles of the 15th-16th centuries (translated from Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin) relating the events of the expulsions from Spain and Portugal.
Author: Elie Kedourie
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500251133
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Five hundred years ago Jews living in Spain were given a Stark choice: be baptized or leave the country. the expulsion of the Sephardim - the term for Spain's Jews - was a turning point in the history of the Iberian Peninsula and one o the greatest upheavals in jewish hostory since the diaspora. published to mark the quincentenary of the sephardi exodus, here is a complete and objective account of these traumatic events.
Author: Yitzhak Baer
Publisher: Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Volume II: In the second volume of his classic exploration of the Spanish-Jewish community, Baer covers such major historical events as the Spanish Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. This work examines the effect of church policy on the Jewish population in the 15th century, and the points at which Jewish culture as a whole was altered by Spain's actions.
Author: Daniela Flesler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253050146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa examine the implications of reclaiming this memory through the analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural practices, political initiatives and institutions in the context of the long history of Spain's ambivalence towards its Jewish past. Through oral interviews, analyses of museums, newly reconfigured "Jewish quarters," excavated Jewish sites, popular festivals, tourist brochures, literature and art, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain explores what happens when these initiatives are implemented at the local level in cities and towns throughout Spain, and how they affect Spain's present.
Author: Norman Roth
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299142337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Jewish community of medieval Spain was the largest and most important in the West for more than a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and political affairs with Muslim and Christian neighbors. This stable situation began to change in the 1390s, and through the next century hundreds of thousands of Jews converted to Christianity. Norman Roth argues here with detailed documentation that, contrary to popular myth, the conversos were sincere converts who hated (and were hated by) the remaining Jewish community. Roth examines in depth the reasons for the Inquisition against the conversos, and the eventual expulsion of all Jews from Spain. “With scrupulous scholarship based on a profound knowledge of the Hebrew, Latin, and Spanish sources, Roth sets out to shatter all existing preconceptions about late medieval society in Spain.”—Henry Kamen, Journal of Ecclesiastical History “Scholarly, detailed, researched, and innovative. . . . As the result of Roth’s writing, we shall need to rethink our knowledge and understanding of this period.”—Murray Levine, Jewish Spectator “The fruit of many years of study, investigation, and reflection, guaranteed by the solid intellectual trajectory of its author, an expert in Jewish studies. . . . A contribution that will be particularly valuable for the study of Spanish medievalism.”—Miguel Angel Motis Dolader, Annuario de Estudios Medievales
