After Expulsion 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry

Name: After Expulsion 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry
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ISBN: 9780814729113

ISBN-10: 0814729118

ISBN-13: 9780814729113

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jonathan S. Ray

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On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nation’s Jewish community officially came to a close. The expulsion of Europe’s last major Jewish community ended more than a thousand years of unparalleled prosperity, cultural vitality and intellectual productivity. Yet, the crisis of 1492 also gave rise to a dynamic and resilient diaspora society spanning East and West. After Expulsiontraces the various paths of migration and resettlement of Sephardic Jews and Conversos over the course of the tumultuous sixteenth century. Pivotally, the volume argues that the exiles did not become “Sephardic Jews” overnight. Only in the second and…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/7/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Jonathan Ray is the Samuel Eig Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University. nbsp;



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Medieval Inheritance



The Long Road into Exile



An Age of Perpetual Migration



Community and Control in the Sephardic Diaspora



Families, Networks, and the Challenge of Social Organization



Rabbinic and Popular Judaism in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean



Imagining Sepharad135


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Author