Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 406 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780827612396
Inhalt:
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 Je
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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Part 1. La ConvivenciaPart 2. The End of Tolerance -- Part 3. The Age of the Converts -- Part 4. The Spanish Inquisition -- Part 5. The Last Iberian Jews.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0827612419
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ISBN 0827612516
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ISBN 9780827612419
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ISBN 9780827612518
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Exiles in Sepharad : The Jewish Millennium in Spain
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
