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Genre/Form: | History Historia |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sloan, Dolores J. Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2009 (OCoLC)680432065 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dolores J Sloan; Jonathan Kirsch |
ISBN: | 0786438177 9780786438174 |
OCLC Number: | 264671102 |
Description: | xii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | On the eve of expulsion: visiting Sephardic homes in 1492 -- Isaac Abravanel: Basta mi nombre que es Abravanel! : It is enough to know my name is Abravanel! -- Abraham Zacuto: from discovery by the stars to a crater on the moon -- Luís de Santángel: Spain's disraeli and converso bridge to the new world -- Doña Gracia Nasi: "piety of Miriam, strength of Judith" -- "Thou preparest a table before me": Jewish life in cities, towns, countryside -- "In the presence of my enemies": work, usury, clothing and entertainment -- Resilience and recovery: Turkey and Brazil, two diaspora communities -- Endurance, persistence and identity: insights from the Sephardic experience. |
Responsibility: | Dolores Sloan ; foreword by Jonathan Kirsch. |
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Abstract:
Traces the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their post - Columbian diaspora. This book profiles several significant Sephardic Jews. It explores the increasing restrictions on Jews prior to expulsion, the divergent fates of two diaspora communities (in Brazil and the Ottoman Empire), and the legacy of Sephardic history.
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- Jews -- Portugal -- History -- 16th century.
- Sephardim -- History -- 15th century.
- Sephardim -- History -- 16th century.
- Spain -- Ethnic relations.
- Portugal -- Ethnic relations.
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- Crypto-Jews -- Spain -- History -- 16th century.
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- Judar -- historia -- Portugal -- 1400-talet -- 1500-talet.
- Sefarder -- historia -- Iberiska halvön.
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