After Expulsion : 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry / Jonathan S. Ray.
2013
DS135.S7 R37 2013
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After Expulsion : 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry / Jonathan S. Ray.
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9780814729120
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New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
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©2013
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English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814729113.001.0001 doi
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DS135.S7 R37 2013
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909.04924
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Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish StudiesOn August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sailfrom Spain, the long and glorious history of that nation'sJewish community officially came to a close. The expulsionof Europe's last major Jewish community ended more thana thousand years of unparalleled prosperity, cultural vitalityand intellectual productivity. Yet, the crisis of 1492 also gaverise to a dynamic and resilient diaspora society spanningEast and West.After Expulsion traces the various paths of migration and resettlementof Sephardic Jews and Conversos over the courseof the tumultuous sixteenth century. Pivotally, the volumeargues that the exiles did not become "Sephardic Jews"overnight. Only in the second and third generation did thesedisparate groups coalesce and adopt a "Sephardic Jewish"identity.After Expulsion presents a new and fascinating portrait ofJewish society in transition from the medieval to the earlymodern period, a portrait that challenges many longstandingassumptions about the differences between Europe and theMiddle East.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Medieval inheritance
2. The long road into exile
3. An age of perpetual migration
4. Community and control in the sephardic diaspora
5. Families, networks, and the challenge of social organization
6. Rabbinic and popular Judaism in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean
7. Imagining sepharad
Conclusion
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index
About the author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Medieval inheritance
2. The long road into exile
3. An age of perpetual migration
4. Community and control in the sephardic diaspora
5. Families, networks, and the challenge of social organization
6. Rabbinic and popular Judaism in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean
7. Imagining sepharad
Conclusion
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index
About the author