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Title Sephardi lives : a documentary history, 1700-1950 / edited by Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 451 pages) : maps
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Contents Everyday life : on the street and in the synagogue, from court to courtyard -- Violence, war, and regional transformation -- Political movements and ideologies -- The Second World War and its aftermath -- Diasporic and émigré circles -- The emergence of Sephardi studies
Summary This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews-descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history in all its diversity, from the courtyard to the courthouse, spheres intimate, political, commercial, familial, and religious, these documents show life within these distinctive Jewish communities as well as between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Sephardi Lives offer readers a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Selections originally written in: Ladino, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish, French, Greek, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Yiddish, and English
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Subject Sephardim -- History -- Sources
Jewish diaspora -- History -- Sources
Jews -- History -- Sources
HISTORY -- World.
Jewish diaspora
Jews
Sephardim
Sephardim
Juden
Diaspora Religion
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Julia Phillips, editor
Stein, Sarah Abrevaya, editor
ISBN 9780804791915
0804791910