Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391-1648

Name: Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391-1648
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ISBN: 9780231109222

ISBN-10: 0231109229

ISBN-13: 9780231109222

Edition: 1997

Authors: Benjamin R. Gampel

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Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/12/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 430
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628

Benjamin R. Gampel is professor of Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary.



Introduction



Historical Overview



Exile and Expulsion in Jewish History




Iberian Jewry: Culture and Society



Secular Hebrew Poetry in Fifteenth-Century Spain




1492: A House Divided




On Converso and Marrano Ethnicity




Iberian Jewry: The Expulsions



Order of the Expulsion from Spain: Antecedents, Causes, and Textual Analysis




Expulsion or Integration? The Portuguese Jewish Problem




The Exiles of 1492 in the Kingdom of Navarre: A Biographical Perspective




Continuity and Change in the Sephardic Diaspora: Communal Life



The Self-Definition of the Sephardic Jews of Western Europe and Their Relation to the Alien and the Stranger




Prototypes of Leadership in a Sephardic Community: Smyrna in the Seventeenth Century




Sephardic Refugees in Ferrara: Two Notable Families




Continuity and Change in the Sephardic Diaspora: Intellectual Pursuits



Encounters Between Spanish and Italian Kabbalists in the Generation of the Expulsion




The Ultimate End of Human Life in Postexpulsion Philosophic Literature




Continuity and Change in the Sephardic Diaspora: Cultural Dimensions



Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books Among the Sephardim Before and After the Expulsion




A Converso Best-Seller: Celestina and Her Foreign Offspring




Sephardic Ceremonial Art: Continuity in the Diaspora



Notes


Index