The History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal
Author: Elias Hiam Lindo
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 416
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Author: Elias Hiam Lindo
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane S. Gerber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1994-01-31
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0029115744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Frederic David Mocatta
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. H. Lindo
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dolores Sloan
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-01-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0786438177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrior to 1492, Jews had flourished on the Iberian Peninsula for hundreds of years. Marked by alternating cooperative coexistence and selective persecution alongside Christians and Muslims, this remarkable period was a golden age for Iberian Jews, with significant and culturally diverse advances in sciences, arts and government. This work traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their post-Columbian diaspora. It highlights achievements in science, medicine, philosophy, arts, economy and government, alongside a few less noble accomplishments, in both the land they left behind and in the lands they settled later. Several significant Sephardic Jews are profiled in detail, and later chapters explore the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion, the divergent fates of two diaspora communities (in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire), and the enduring legacy of Sephardic history.
Author: Richard David Barnett
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 652
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aviva Ben-Ur
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0814725198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties. The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.
Author: James Finn
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-14
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781330299180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Sephardim: Or, the History of the Jews in Spain and Portugal Of the two large bodies of European Jews, the Ashkenazim from Germany and Poland, and the Sephardim of Spanish and Portuguese descent, it is well known that during our middle ages the latter were the more eminent in wealth, literature, and general importance. To this fact we find frequent allusions in historical works, though only in cursory or compressed remarks. And from the nature of their circumstances such an effect must have followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.