| Description |
1 online resource (x, 213 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nation's Jewish community officially came to a close. The expulsion of Europe's last major Jewish community ended more than a thousand years of unparalleled prosperity, cultural vitality and intellectual productivity. Yet, the crisis of 1492 also gave rise to a dynamic and resilient diaspora society spanning East and West. After Expulsion traces the various paths of migration and resettlement of Sephardic Jews and Conversos over the course of the tumultuous sixteenth century. Pivotally, t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Spain -- History -- Expulsion, 1492 -- Influence
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Jews -- Spain -- History.
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Sephardim -- History
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Crypto-Jews -- Iberian Peninsula -- History
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Crypto-Jews
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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Sephardim
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| SUBJECT |
Spain -- Ethnic relations
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Europe -- Iberian Peninsula
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Spain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0814729126 |
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9780814729120 |
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9780814729137 |
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0814729134 |
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