Spain and the Jews

Spain and the Jews
Author: Elie Kedourie
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1992
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 9780500251133

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.

A History of the Jews in Christian Spain

A History of the Jews in Christian Spain
Author: Yitzhak Baer
Publisher: Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1961
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.

Jews of Spain

Jews of Spain
Author: Jane S. Gerber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1994-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0029115744

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.

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain
Author: Daniela Flesler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253050146

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.

Art of Estrangement

Art of Estrangement
Author: Pamela Anne Patton
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271053836

"Examines the influential role of visual images in reinforcing the efforts of Spain's Christian-ruled kingdoms to renegotiate the role of their Jewish minority following the territorial expansions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Sephardim

Sephardim
Author: Paloma Díaz-Mas
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226144832

Also examined. Authoritative and completely accessible, Sephardim will appeal to anyone interested in Spanish culture and Jewish civilization. Each chapter ends with a list of recommended reading, and the book includes an extensive bibliography of works in Spanish, French, and English. Fully updated by the author since its publication in Spanish, Sephardim also features notes by the translator that illuminate references which might otherwise be obscure to an.

History of a Tragedy

History of a Tragedy
Author: Joseph Pérez
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2007
Genre: Civilisation médiévale
ISBN: 0252031415

A concise retelling of the Sephardic Jews' grim story

Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain

Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain
Author: Norman Roth
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004099715

This work details relations between Jews and Visigoths, polemic and persecution, and between Jews and Muslims, cooperation and conflict, in medieval Spain, including later Christian Spain. New sources and new insights challenge conventional interpretations.