Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 406 pages .)
ISBN:
0827612419
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9780827612419
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9780827612396
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0827612397
Inhalt:
"The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life inExiles 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 theZohar, 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."--JSTOR website (viewed May 30, 2017)
Anmerkung:
The dramatic one-thousand-year history of the Jews in Spain, from their heyday under Muslim and then early Christian rule--when Jewish culture was at its height, like nowhere else in the world--to the late fourteenth century, when mass riots against the Jews forced conversions and eventually led to the horrific Spanish Inquisition and expulsion of the Jews"--Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Part 1. La Convivencia -- Part 2. The End of Tolerance -- Part 3. The Age of the Converts -- Part 4. The Spanish Inquisition -- Part 5. The Last Iberian Jews.
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ISBN 9780827612518
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ISBN 0827612516
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780827612518
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ISBN 0827612516
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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