From expulsion to revival -- The Me'am Lo'ez: the masterpiece of Ladino literature (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries) -- Immigrants in the land of their birth: the Sephardi community in Jerusalem. The test case of the Meyuḥas family -- Beautiful damsels and men of valor: Ladino literature giving us a peek into the spiritual world of Sephardi women in Jerusalem (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) -- The Spanish senator Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the "Spaniards without a homeland", speakers of Jewish Spanish -- The lost identity of the Sephardim in the land of Israel and the state of Israel
Summary
The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the political, social and cultural changes through which the speakers of Jewish-Spanish went since the turn of the nineteenth century
