Exiles In Sepharad

Author : Jeffrey Gorsky
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827612419
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiles in Sepharad written by Jeffrey Gorsky and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion. Twenty percent of Jews today are descended from Sephardic Jews, who created significant works in religion, literature, science, and philosophy. They flourished under both Muslim and Christian rule, enjoying prosperity and power unsurpassed in Europe. Their cultural contributions include important poets; the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides; and Moses de Leon, author of the Zohar, the core text of the Kabbalah. But these Jews also endured considerable hardship. Fundamentalist Islamic tribes drove them from Muslim to Christian Spain. In 1391 thousands were killed and more than a third were forced to convert by anti-Jewish rioters. A century later the Spanish Inquisition began, accusing thousands of these converts of heresy. By the end of the fifteenth century Jews had been expelled from Spain and forcibly converted in Portugal and Navarre. After almost a millennium of harmonious existence, what had been the most populous and prosperous Jewish community in Europe ceased to exist on the Iberian Peninsula.

Author : Jonathan S. Ray
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814729118
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Expulsion written by Jonathan S. Ray and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies 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 Expulsion traces 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 third generation did these disparate groups coalesce and adopt a “Sephardic Jewish” identity. After Expulsion presents a new and fascinating portrait of Jewish society in transition from the medieval to the early modern period, a portrait that challenges many longstanding assumptions about the differences between Europe and the Middle East.

Author : Jane S. Gerber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029115744
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews of Spain written by Jane S. Gerber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-01-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Henry Craven Ord Lanchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obadiah and Jonah written by Henry Craven Ord Lanchester and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tabea Alexa Linhard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791880
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Spain written by Tabea Alexa Linhard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is meant by "Jewish Spain"? The term itself encompasses a series of historical contradictions. No single part of Spain has ever been entirely Jewish. Yet discourses about Jews informed debates on Spanish identity formation long after their 1492 expulsion. The Mediterranean world witnessed a renewed interest in Spanish-speaking Jews in the twentieth century, and it has grappled with shifting attitudes on what it meant to be Jewish and Spanish throughout the century. At the heart of this book are explorations of the contradictions that appear in different forms of cultural memory: literary texts, memoirs, oral histories, biographies, films, and heritage tourism packages. Tabea Alexa Linhard identifies depictions of the difficulties Jews faced in Spain and Northern Morocco in years past as integral to the survival strategies of Spanish Jews, who used them to make sense of the confusing and harrowing circumstances of the Spanish Civil War, the Francoist repression, and World War Two. Jewish Spain takes its place among other works on Muslims, Christians, and Jews by providing a comprehensive analysis of Jewish culture and presence in twentieth-century Spain, reminding us that it is impossible to understand and articulate what Spain was, is, and will be without taking into account both "Muslim Spain" and "Jewish Spain."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holy Bible According to the Authorized Version (a.D. 1611): Ezekiel to the Minor Prophets. 1892 written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederic Charles Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “The” Holy Bible, According to the Authorized Version (A.D. 1611): Ezekiel, Daniel, Minor prophets written by Frederic Charles Cook and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederic Charles Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holy Bible, According to the Authorized Version (A.D. 1611): Ezekiel. Daniel, and the minor prophets written by Frederic Charles Cook and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Haim Beinart
Publisher : Gefen Books
ISBN 13 : 9789652237934
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moreshet Sepharad written by Haim Beinart and published by Gefen Books. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moreshet Sepharad: The Sephardi Legacy sets out to summarize the monumental legacy of a Jewish community that resided within the historical boundaries of Spain for some fifteen hundred years. Many chapters evaluate the contribution of Sephardi Jewry to the renaissance of Hebrew Language and science. These as well as many issues in Jewish communal life, have been analyzed and evaluated both in the context of Spain prior to the Expulsion and in the various settings where the exiles settled and formed new social patterns. The thirty-eight chapters which make up the work provide guidelines which the student or interested reader may utilize to gain a deeper understanding of the essence of Sephardi Jewry in the basis of its glorious past and heritage.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004397272
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Twelve written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commentary, written from a distinctively Pentecostal perspective, is primarily for pastors, lay persons and Bible students. It is based upon the best scholarship, written in popular language, and communicates the meaning of the text with minimal technical distractions. The authors offer a running exposition on the text and extended comments on matters of special signicance for Pentecostals. They acknowledge and interact with alternative interpretations of individual passages. This commentary also provides periodic opportunities for reflection upon and personal response to the biblical text.