Sephardi Jewry - A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries

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List of contents

List of Maps
Note on Translation
Note on Transliteration and Place Names
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Prologue
Notes to the Prologue
1 Community and Society
2 Economy and Culture
3 Eastern Sephardi Jewry in the Era of Westernization
4 Paths of Politicization
5 The End of the Judea-Spanish Balkans: The Holocaust
and Migrations
Conclusion
Notes
Archival Sources
Newspapers and Periodicals
Select Bibliography
Index of Names and Places
Subject Index

About the author

Esther Benbassa is Professor of Jewish History at the Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, and Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Her books Jews in France (1999) and Haim Nahum (1995) are available in English. Aron Rodrigue is Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Transition (1993) and French Jews, Turkish Jews (1990).

Summary

Focusing on the distinctive Judeo-Spanish cultural entity that flourished in the Balkans and Asia Minor for more than four centuries, this title shows how Sephardi society and culture developed in the Levant, sharing language, religion, customs, and communal life as they did nowhere else.

Product details

• Authors: Esther Benbassa, Esther Rodrigue Benbassa, Benbassa Esther, Benbassa/Rodrigue, Esther Benbassa, Aron Rodrigue, Rodrigue Aron
• Assisted by: Esther Benbassa (Editor), Aron Rodrigue (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2000
• EAN: 9780520218222
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21822-2
• No. of pages: 377
• Series: Jewish Communities in the Modern World; Jewish Communities in the Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Spain, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, CE period up to c 1500, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Jewish Studies, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Southeast Europe, HISTORY / Europe / Spain